Katie Mitchell is unapologetically queer, but her anxiety, insecurities about her future, and desire to make weird art feels relatable without being stereotypical. The fact she's included in an animated family feature, a genre notorious for queer exclusion, will genuinely change lives. This movie ...
This Essay explores the answer to the question of why we would spare Walter White from the death penalty. Its exploration underscores the critical importance of "mitigation"—a capacious term that refers to evidence introduced by capital defense lawyers to persuade jurors to hand down something ...
Tag-team novel writing wasn’t new: no lesser worthies than Henry James and William Dean Howells had banded with ten scribes in 1907 to produce The Whole Family, whose excellence is demonstrated by the fact that this may be the first and only time you’ll ever hear about it. The novelty...
In First Chronicles chapter 1, we have a repeat of this genealogy. In fact, the book of Chronicles opens with these words: “Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” There is no variation. And Luke chapter 3 will indicate...
Twain had long been fascinated with the story of our First Parents. Examples of literary works involving Adam include: Chapter 53 ofThe Innocents Abroad, where the narrator revels in “tumultuous emotions” at finding himself beside Adam’s tomb, and bewails that fact that neither of them had...
Here in America, the darkness is already here. As we approach the most consequential—and potentially catastrophic—election of our lifetime, we wonder whether our present world can in fact brighten into spring. If there ever were a time to keep the faith, it is now. ...
Sergey Ivanovitch's position was still more difficult from the fact that, since he had finished his book, he had had no more literary work to do, such as had hitherto occupied the greater part of his time. View in context His interest, after all, is, consistently, that of the moralist...
The song is a duet between Dylan andEmmylou Harris; as an incidental to its use of the natural minor scale it has a decidedly Middle Eastern flavor in the vocal melody. It was covered byThe White Stripeson their eponymous debut album. Furthermore there is a version by Roger McGuinn and ...
) Anyway, all that was true, but I recovered quite nicely at Walter Mitty Hospital when we got back stateside. In fact, that was precisely when I started to write poetry. One morning while convalescing I had the epiphany that poetry was exactly like t-ball! (Maybe you've read my ...
The Woman in White(白衣女人),《白衣女人》是威尔基·柯林斯最著名的代表作之一。小说描述家庭教师哈特莱特与女学生劳拉坠入情网,然而,劳拉的父亲临终前却早将女儿许配给了珀西瓦尔爵士。 一天晚上,哈特莱特在路上偶遇了一个外貌酷似劳拉的白衣女人,她刚逃出疯人院