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Do you think Daedalus feared he might fall?
Thinking about “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” love, flying, the creative process, and fear at the brink
Dec 3, 2025
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‘12 Angry Men’ and the fiction of debate and justice
Thoughts on jury duty, racist screeds, the marketplace of ideas, and debate me bros
Nov 5, 2025
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On getting worse as a writer
Thoughts and fears from the process of writing an essay collection
Oct 18, 2025
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The dream girl is waking
Apr 15, 2025
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Can romance survive who you are?
May 15, 2025
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EMMA. (2020) and what we really want from adaptations
Aug 7, 2025
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On getting worse as a writer
Oct 18, 2025
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The pope is dying, and I can’t stop thinking about ‘Conclave’
Feb 26, 2025
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American Psycho and cutting connective tissue
Jan 14, 2025
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Ethan Hawke could fix me
On “First Reformed,” capitalism, despair, and being un/underemployed for one year
Sep 30, 2025
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Introducing ‘Conflict Kino,’ a film podcast about the imperial periphery
A new project + brief thoughts from inside the imperial core
Sep 1, 2025
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EMMA. (2020) and what we really want from adaptations
I love this film. It is a terrible adaptation, but does that make it terrible film?
Aug 7, 2025
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Lolita and the invitations of untrustworthy men
On unreliable narrators, the heterosexuality of it all, and finding clarity in “Lolita”
Jul 21, 2025
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The Nickel Boys and breaking the rules
On the echoes of slavery and living in a system designed to hurt us
Jul 8, 2025
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Finding hope in ‘Salò’
A critical reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” and a secret second film
Jun 21, 2025
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I’m teaching a class this summer!
Class info for Intro to Literary Publishing + spring cleaning, summer reading
Jun 10, 2025
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Can romance survive who you are?
Thoughts on “Before Midnight,” gender performance, and hetero-pessimism
May 15, 2025
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Tom Nook isn’t a landlord, he’s a colonizer
A video essay three years in the making
May 1, 2025
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