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Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” Turns Television Inside Out

The sixth episode leaves me on my couch with my mouth open, staring at Nathan Fielder’s backside as he rises from the floor.

Aug 21, 2022

Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” Turns Television Inside Out

Aug 21, 2022

Review of I HAD A BROTHER ONCE by Adam Mansbach

Published by One World, a division of Penguin Random House, on 13 April 2021

Apr 21, 2021

Review of I HAD A BROTHER ONCE by Adam Mansbach

Apr 21, 2021

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The Fox and the Fly: Volpone by Ben Jonson as Fable

This allows audiences to identify deeper moral truths from where they exist already in the complex, entangled web of plot.

Apr 16, 2021

View of gilded, red-curtained stage.

Apr 16, 2021

Non-Zero-Sum Frame: The Bed Trick in Measure for Measure

The other relationships in the play establish grounds for consent that are completely eschewed here.

Mar 21, 2021

Non-Zero-Sum Frame: The Bed Trick in Measure for Measure

Mar 21, 2021

The Fulmination of Goodness

Iphigenia and Greek Tragic Suffering

Jan 9, 2021

The Fulmination of Goodness

Jan 9, 2021

Mirrors, Breadcrumbs, and a Wolf Who Wants In

Fairy Tale and the Uncanny in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”

Jan 7, 2021

Mirrors, Breadcrumbs, and a Wolf Who Wants In

Jan 7, 2021

The Furies as a Symbol of Absolution in Aeschylus’ “The Eumenides”

After finishing the last play in Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, The Eumenides, I am left with several questions.

Oct 10, 2020

The Furies as a Symbol of Absolution in Aeschylus’ “The Eumenides”

Oct 10, 2020

The Encomium of Helen: What it’s Like When Gorgian Sophistry Actually Sort of Works

I am a graduate student in the era of COVID-19. The majority of my writing nowadays exists for/because of the two seminars I’m taking…

Oct 8, 2020

The Encomium of Helen: What it’s Like When Gorgian Sophistry Actually Sort of Works

Oct 8, 2020

Midnight Sun: A Revitalized Teen Romance or an Ode to Freud’s Uncanny?

“Midnight Sun” steps quietly into the place of its predecessor, singing the same tune with different words.

Aug 7, 2020

Cover of “Midnight Sun” by Stephenie Meyer.

Aug 7, 2020

Review of CHOSEN ONES by Veronica Roth

Sci-fi/fantasy fiction published on 7 April, 2020.

Jun 13, 2020

Review of CHOSEN ONES by Veronica Roth

Jun 13, 2020

The Paradox of Immortality in John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”

While human life is ephemeral, creative expression is immortal.

May 24, 2020

Meadow at dusk.

May 24, 2020

Review of BECOMING. by Renaada Williams

Poetry collection due for publication on 19 May, 2020.

Apr 24, 2020

Review of BECOMING. by Renaada Williams

Apr 24, 2020

Verisimilar Grief and Forgiveness: A Lacklustre Winter’s Tale

We are deprived a means to a resolution.

Apr 21, 2020

Verisimilar Grief and Forgiveness: A Lacklustre Winter’s Tale

Apr 21, 2020

Review of THE SHE BOOK V.2 by Tanya Markul

Poetry collection due for publication on 30 June, 2020.

Apr 20, 2020

Review of THE SHE BOOK V.2 by Tanya Markul

Apr 20, 2020

Review of THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN by Jennifer Giesbrecht

Novella published on 24th September, 2019 by Tor.com

Mar 29, 2020

Review of THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN by Jennifer Giesbrecht

Mar 29, 2020

Review of PET by Akwaeke Emezi

Novel published on 10th September, 2019 by Make Me a World

Mar 22, 2020

Review of PET by Akwaeke Emezi

Mar 22, 2020

Human Nature and Liminal Space in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Is a sense of self even possible for a clone bred for sacrifice?

Jan 30, 2020

Human Nature and Liminal Space in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Jan 30, 2020

Books Aren’t Sacred

Someone chopped their books in half and everyone seems angry about it.

Jan 21, 2020

Books Aren’t Sacred

Jan 21, 2020

CuteGirlCooks: Quick and Easy Mini Banana Muffins!

Trust me, you’ll want to read to the end. They’re so delicious!

Dec 4, 2019

CuteGirlCooks: Quick and Easy Mini Banana Muffins!

Dec 4, 2019

In a Churchyard

In a churchyard just north of the fallen stop sign on Ironway and Faigen, Mr. Amesbury was digging a grave.

Oct 3, 2019

Trees cover the front of a house.

Oct 3, 2019

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Retired lemonade stand entrepreneur. Short stories, book reviews, essays, and musings.

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