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
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
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
Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story
Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art
April 19, 2017
By Emily Harnett
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
Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America
On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness
December 15, 2016
By Emily Harnett
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
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
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
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
When Art Cannot Console Us in Death
Emily Harnett on the Hard Art of the Death Memoir
February 17, 2016
By Emily Harnett
