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Cal Smith
Apr 1519 min read
“The Long French Road to Spain”: Pilgrimage, Allusion, and the Documentary Mode in Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
In a 1938 review for Poetry, Willard Maas critiques The Book of the Dead’s documentary mode, stating “the signs of the road lead her...
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Melissa Varley
Apr 91 min read
A Becoming Shade of Blue
Date submitted: 27 September 2023 Date accepted: 7 November 2023
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Sophie Keenan
Apr 11 min read
Fondue
I’m thinking of ending things— To rephrase, my relationship with cold Horrible, unworthy thoughts That see me simmering, diffused, and...
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Olga Tsygankova
Apr 120 min read
The Fracturing and Reintegration of the Self in *Severance* as Commentary on Dante’s *Inferno*
This essay contains major spoilers for the show Severance. It has been argued that Dante's metaphysical worldview is alien to modern...
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Fabrizio Lacarra Ramirez
Apr 11 min read
Fletching
An arrow only flies as true as its fletching; the feathers laid sharp on the end of your ruin. It must be like this So I can, unimpeded,...
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Fabrizio Lacarra Ramirez
Apr 11 min read
Little Red
Your red hood on high, Riding fast through the countryside– My little red hood; Blood rose, cherry pit, Sangiovese, open-wound. Bicycle...
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Paz O’Farrell
Apr 111 min read
The Agenda On Our Heads: Lice, Satire, A Female Interviewer
On the television and the many social media feeds I am chained to, I see a woman ask a man if the pyramids were built from the top down...
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Violette Drouin
Apr 116 min read
From the Library of Clarissa Dalloway: Reading Memory, Casual Allusion, and Characterization in *Mrs. Dalloway*
“She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed” (Woolf 7); so Clarissa Dalloway...
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Jasper Sattentau
Apr 117 min read
The (Un)sleeping Dead: Zombie Apocalypse and the Annihilation of Sleep under 24/7 Capitalism
We are living through an unprecedented crisis in sleep. This idea is clearly alive in the popular imagination, from articles advising us...
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Yunhe Cui
Apr 15 min read
You See
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. I am not pregnant. I was pregnant. I could feel her inside me, then there she is, already learning to walk,...
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Ronny Litvack-Katzman
Sep 13, 20235 min read
Disaffected Prayer
In response to “‘Uninterrupted Joy, Unrivalled Love’: Reading Paradise Lost Through Affective Prayer” by Shelby Haber. When I first...
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Bram Thorpe
Sep 13, 202322 min read
The “Lyric Self”
Psychosis, Self-Estrangement, and Estrangement from Reality in Robert Lowell’s Neurodiverse Poetry “And some go mystical, and some go...
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Katie Lund
Sep 13, 202317 min read
Vocation and Dress in *Jude the Obscure*
Throughout Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy pays a great deal of attention to clothing details, lingering on sartorial choices and changes...
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Cassandra Luca
Sep 13, 202317 min read
Sun trine Pluto: Astrology, AI, and spirituality
The Devil’s Dictionary tells us that astrology is “[the] science of making the dupe see stars” (ASTROLOGY - The Devil’s Dictionary...
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Aamna Rashid
Sep 13, 202318 min read
A Farewell to Feminism in *Top Girls*: Caryl Churchill’s Antithetical Utopic Feminism
The place of the feminine within literary and political discourse and the discussion of the complexities of gender continues as an...
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Petro Analytis
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Space Odyssey Redux
In Eleusian fields, I’m delusional still Crawling past the edge, hedging all my bets Initiated into lex, Now I cannot repent. To wash my...
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Violette Drouin
Sep 13, 20231 min read
January Sun
At last comes the long-awaited month after the solstice. The snow-glint yellow sun dancing on the still-porous surface of the frozen...
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Bronwyn Miles
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Modern Theology
I came across Cain and Abel in my front yard. Rolling in the dirt, their faces (and thus their souls) were obscure to me. Had I been able...
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Mahin Siddiki
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Passing Time
I watch the sunlight As it slithers after its own shadows Across my walls, Leaving stroboscopic imprints Of its movements In egg-yolk...
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Cal Smith
Mar 1, 20233 min read
“I Wore a Ski Mask to Hide My Shame”: *White Noise* Review
White Noise, directed by Noah Baumbach, is a confident, often chaotic, and consistently funny adaptation of the 1985 novel by Don...
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