Spencer Cohen inspects the construction of the Pearl Harbor mythos in the American cultural imagination.
Essays
Love Story at 50
Ella Taylor reminisces about the corny moments and wide impact of the top-grossing 1970 film "Love Story."
Clue or Red Herring? How Clue Shreds the Detective Rulebook
Milan Terlunen looks at the construction of suspense in the murder mystery genre — using a few crowd favorites.
On Brian Dillon and Affinity
Sophia Stewart finds wisdom in Brian Dillon's recent book "Suppose a Sentence."
Lost in Transition: Can Inclusivity Cross a Language Barrier?
S.A. Karpukhin explores the roadblocks and subtleties of translating pronoun preferences and transgender-inclusive language in Russian.
Do They Know It’s Xmas?
Tanya Agathocleous and Marina Bilbija find cross-cultural literary ties to the Christian holiday.
Ground Gives
Joanna Chen observes the coming winter in Dublin and contemplates a Seamus Heaney poem.
Chai Stories from the Pandemic
Anandi Mishra reflects on the comforting tastes holding her steady during the pandemic.
Speed Reading Sucks
Nevada Ryan is only asking us to slow down.
Following Colin McCahon
Thomas McLean traces the work and mythic nature of New Zealand modernist artist Colin McCahon.