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by Ronny Litvack-Katzman James Merrill’s The Broken Home and Michael Ondaatje’s Letters & Other Worlds both cast doubt upon the idea of a perfect family.…

By Liz Wagner Since it disturbs the natural flow of reading, the fragment form constitutes one of the most striking literary features of contemporary migration…

by Sanjna Navani Temporality is “a mode of implantation through which institutional forces come to seem like somatic facts”; in heteronormative society, these forces “are…

by Camille Crichlow The recent rise of unsettling, often disturbing French arthouse films has formed the innovative Cinema du Corps movement, what Tim Palmer in…

by James Ward  Wallace Stevens’ “Sunday Morning” is structured, ostensibly, around an interaction between a woman and a poet, with the woman serving as a…

by Collin James The Brothers Grimms’ publication of “Snow White” spawned a lasting legacy that spans across multiple generations of narrative re-invention. This may be surprising,…

by Sophia Metcalf BACKGROUND In September 2017, I ended a three-year relationship with a man who had been my best friend since my first days…

by Rilla Kingston CREATING CHARACTER There are seemingly infinite methods for building character in a performance or dramatic role. The popularity of a given method changes…

by Deanna Duxbury Julie and Faye’s relationship, in David Foster Wallace’s “Little Expressionless Animals,” is surrounded by images of glass, mirrors, and reflection. David Foster Wallace…