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Emily Harnett

Emily Harnett
Emily Harnett is Philadelphia-based writer on contemporary fiction and pop culture. Her other writing can be found at Broadly and Jacket2.


Real Gratitude Shouldn’t Be Easy: On It’s a Wonderful Life

George Bailey Rejects the Given in Favor of the Good
December 22, 2017  By Emily Harnett
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Celebrities: They’re Not Just Like Us

As Julie Klam Understands, That's the Entire Point
July 19, 2017  By Emily Harnett
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Every Ending is a Kind of Apocalypse: On Belief and The Leftovers

We want our fiction, like our lives, to end with revelation
June 6, 2017  By Emily Harnett
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How Girlboss Tries and Fails to Be a Millennial Mary Tyler Moore Show

a monument to capitalism dressed up as a sitcom
May 23, 2017  By Emily Harnett
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Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art
April 19, 2017  By Emily Harnett
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Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story

On Search Party, Raymond Chandler, and Mysteries with No Resolutions
February 6, 2017  By Emily Harnett
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Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness
December 15, 2016  By Emily Harnett
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Bad Old Ideas in a Brave New World

On the Backward-Looking Sexual Politics of Westworld and Ex Machina
November 16, 2016  By Emily Harnett
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On the Horror of Language, and the Horror of Trump

From The Shining to the Election, and the Things That Scare Us Most
October 31, 2016  By Emily Harnett
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What About a Woman’s Right to Idleness?

On the Work of Writing and Leopoldine Core's When Watched
September 21, 2016  By Emily Harnett
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How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

David Foster Wallace's New Sentimentality Got Old, Fast
May 17, 2016  By Emily Harnett
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When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

Emily Harnett on the Hard Art of the Death Memoir
February 17, 2016  By Emily Harnett
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