Laura Horak’s new book Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2016) is an exhaustively researched and insightful look at gender norms and… Read more “A Review of Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys”
Month: March 2016
Dubliners by James Joyce
Until this month, I had never read anything by James Joyce. No Finnegan’s Wake, no Ulysses, no A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Deciding to rectify this… Read more “Dubliners by James Joyce”
A Review of The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy About Love (and Hate) by Chris Matheson
To say Chris Matheson’s The Story of God is irreverent would be misleading: irreverent does not begin to cover it. Matheson sets out to be just about as offensive… Read more “A Review of The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy About Love (and Hate) by Chris Matheson”
A Review of Jennifer Grotz’s Window Left Open
oh Lord I’ll make a broken music or I’ll die… – from “The Snow Apples” In her new collection Window Left Open Jennifer Grotz explores the relationship between… Read more “A Review of Jennifer Grotz’s Window Left Open”
A Review of Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser
Travis Mulhauser takes the style of southern rural noir and brings it to the snowy forests of northern Michigan in his debut novel Sweetgirl. The novel is set in fictional… Read more “A Review of Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser”
Ida (2013)
The 2013 Polish film Ida, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, is a beautifully shot film of devastating emotional power. The film tells the story of a young woman’s personal… Read more “Ida (2013)”
A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy
Ohio poet Jeff Gundy’s Abandoned Homeland is a collection of simple poems that feel rooted in their midwestern state of origin. These poems are of this place, a state… Read more “A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy”
An Evening with Poet Amber Tamblyn
My wife and I recently traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a weekend of buying books, drinking good beer, and freezing our asses off. We succeeded on… Read more “An Evening with Poet Amber Tamblyn”
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