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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Hannibal de Pencier In his works, Lord Byron largely anticipates the twentieth-century notion of performativity as expounded by feminist theorist Judith Butler. Byron’s habitual…

By Catherine Hall Reading, writing, and discussing fanfiction is an integral part of online fandoms. There are 5,381,000 works available (as of November 2019) on Archive…

By Christina Marcucci Over fifty years after its publication, Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) has integrated into mainstream American popular culture, with pop singers such as Katy…

By Zoe Babad-Palmer Margaret Laurence’s classic novel The Diviners, a künstlerroman about an author and single mother named Morag, was praised by reviewers like Ms.…