“I’m surprised you’re not analyzing Daddy,” my poetry professor, Dr. D’Arcy Randall, said as we discussed my Sylvia Plath research project. “So much of your poetry is based around your family struggles.”
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Poet, Lamp Designer, Artist: Why More People Should Read Mina Loy
Though her name is unfamiliar to many — perhaps due to her determination to challenge social and artistic boundaries while being a woman of Jewish heritage and indeterminate genre — Mina Loy continues to complicate the emotions and perceptions of those who engage with her work.
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We Live in a Dystopian Prequel: Now What?
So, what do we do when our day-to-day lives read like the prologue of a dystopian novel?
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Misguided Bookstores and Scornful Critics: The Importance of Horror in Literature
Fear is one of the greatest motivators in existence, so why should the genre that employs it the most be the most disdained?
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The Case for Video Games as a Compelling Form of Literature
It’s time to start considering video games as legitimate mediums for effective storytelling.
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The Epistolary Form and Trauma in The Star of the Sea
O’Connor does not presume to definitively depict his country’s most horrific period. His larger point, woven throughout a narrative which suggests storytelling itself is fallible, is that words can fail to communicate horrors, and that fiction must adapt.
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Translating Borges’ First Facebook Post
Written by JoJo Phillips Today, I am sitting on a stool in a long, grey hallway, looking at the portraits on the walls. The one in front of me is of a sad, old man named Borges. He is on the wall, like a fish, and looks down at me, also Borges. All around us,…
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