By Ronny Litvack-Katzman Some weeks into his imprisonment at Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Nairobi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wrote that he would…
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By Ronny Litvack-Katzman Time weighs heavily on the narrative in Radclyffe Hall’s “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself,” (1926). The effect of time imposes on Miss Ogilvy…
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By Meghan Farbridge “No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity. The fact that a human hand…
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By Tessa Groszman In 1919, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the historic Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) in Berlin, for the research of LGBTQ+…
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By Tessa Groszman Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is set during the Mexican Revolution on the Mexico-United States border, in the waning days of the…
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By Sophia Huang In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956), David embarks on a search to “find [himself]” (21). He assumes that the emotional turmoil and…
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By Michaela Keil To define a genre as old and enigmatic as the slave narrative is a near impossibility. In “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film…
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By Julie Demet In Leonard Cohen’s poem “When I Uncovered Your Body,” the speaker ruminates on the relationship between art and beauty as he observes…
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By Margot Maclaren The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) demonstrates that topics relevant to the 1950s continue to be relevant today. The show portrays the life…
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