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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
2

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
1

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art
April 19, 2017  By Emily Harnett
1

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
2

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness
December 15, 2016  By Emily Harnett
1

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
4

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
1

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
1

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
63

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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