Cover of Artie and the Wolf Moon Today we have a guest post by Jasmine Walls, writer of the YA graphic novel Brooms (check out our preview !), with a list of ten of her favorite graphic novels by Black creators to get Black History Month 2024 off to a good start. Enjoy! In honor […]
You’ve probably heard by now that last night, during the Grammys ceremony, as she was accepting an award, Taylor Swift announced that she has a new album coming out. Many thought that if she were revealing anything, it would be the release date of her re-recording of her Reputation album. Instead, she announced an album […]
In the opening minutes of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s minor-key remix of the 2005 film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married, duelling assassins—the series symbolically obliterates its source material. An absurdly good-looking couple on the run decide to take a final stand, exchanging a passionate kiss as they prepare […]
A journal reviewer accused Lizzie Wolkovich of using ChatGPT to write a manuscript. She hadn’t — but her paper was rejected anyway. Accusations of plagiarism, including alleged misuse of ChatGPT, should not be made lightly. I have just been accused of scientific fraud. Not data fraud — no one accused me of fabricating or misleadingly […]
Samuel L. Jackson and Bryce Dallas Howard in Argylle (2024) The new action comedy Argylle is getting as much buzz for its endless twists as it is for its suspected connection to Taylor Swift. Many Swifties believe that their goddess is secretly the author of the unpublished, possibly nonexistent book that the movie is based […]
Screenshot from the movie “Saltburn” In Saltburn , the backdrops are as mesmerizing and as essential to the plot as the delicate portrayal of the central relationship between Oliver and Felix. The settings are both tight and enclosed, the campus and the country house. These are my favorite settings for novels—discrete locations with groups defined […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Colossus’ is a transitional Sylvia Plath poem. The title poem of the only poetry collection published during her lifetime ( The Colossus , in 1960), it is one of the most accomplished poems in that collection, and in some ways paves the way for the mature poems, written […]
Most of us who enjoy books are largely agreed upon concepts like “good writing” and “clarity and confidence of expression” being fundamental to our delight in the play of words upon a page. We are brought up to learn that conveying our thoughts in “good English” is part of our education in that language, and […]
Opinion In the early days of knowing my husband Mendel, he told me fragments of his story. One day, we were sitting on the hillside at a large university campus, just before our first year of study came to a close. We had been together since the outset of what was then called Frosh Week. […]
