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A Very Modern Monster:
On Hannibal Lecter

ELLIOT JORDAN

Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter series has become a mainstay of the psychological thriller genre, inspiring successful film and television shows along the way. Elliot Jordan revisits the novels that brought the infamous cannibal to life in our collective imagination and argues for Harris’ series as not only great literature but the ultimate modern fairytale.

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FILM

Lamb and the Double-Edged Sword of Ambitious Filmmaking

SASHO PSHENKO

Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut thriller Lamb (2021) has been hailed by critics for its bleak cinematography and strange, dreadful suspense. Sasho Pshenko acknowledges the film's many achievements but finds in its shortcomings both disappointment and implications for the creation of artistic masterpieces more generally.

FINE ARTS & CULTURE

A Room with a View: The Unconventional Art Gallery of Third Floor Window

LILY EKIMIAN

In Pittsburgh’s Mt. Lebanon, three floors up a nondescript apartment building, hides a gem of public art. Lily Ekimian speaks with Carolina Alamilla, the curator and artist behind Third Floor Window, about how she utilizes her apartment window to share art.

POETRY

“The Me Who Doesn’t Exist”

ROWAN GLADISH

A poem by Rowan Gladish.

POETRY

Proving a Villain

CHARLES MARLOW

A Shakespeare-inspired poetry collection by Charles Marlow.

Music

Fine Arts & Culture

Joe Mruk

House Music

Joe Mruk invites you into a house built of an everlasting love for music and its power to heal, inspire, and move the soul. Step inside.

Kelsey Swintek

Finding Harmony in the Dichotomies of Lorde’s Solar Power

Kesley Swintek lays flat the opposing poles that Lorde balances in herself and her music.

Carolina Alamilla

Artist Duo BUFF’s Collaborative Surface

Carolina Alamilla explores how BUFF’s mixed-media collaboration adds to—as well as emphasizes—the beauty of blemished city surfaces.

Lily Ekimian

A Room with a View: The Unconventional Art Gallery of Third Floor Window

Lily Ekimian speaks with Carolina Alamilla, the curator behind Third Floor Window, about how she utilizes her apartment window to share art.

Film & Literature

Elliot Jordan

A Very Modern Monster: On Hannibal Lecter

Elliot Jordan revisits the Hannibal Lecter series and argues for it as not only great literature but the ultimate modern fairytale.

Sasho Pshenko

Lamb and the Double-Edged Sword of Ambitious Filmmaking

Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut thriller Lamb (2021) has been hailed by critics for its bleak cinematography and strange, dreadful suspense.

Sasho Pshenko

The Eternal Potency of The Master and Margarita’s Passive Resistance

Sasho Pshenko revisits The Master and Margarita and finds in it a guide, of sorts, to an unexpected form of resistance: passivity.

Sasho Pshenko

The Girl, the Home, the Night, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Glorious Cinematic Vampirism

Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a revelry of cinematic styles and innovation.

Fiction & Poetry

Rowan Gladish

The Me Who Doesn’t Exist

A poem by Rowan Gladish.

Brett Sullivan Santry

Two From the Plague Times

Two poems by Brett Sullivan Santry.

Lyde Longaker

“Green Blades”

"Words spring up / Like neon spikes / From fallow fields / Of endless rows that / Speak unheard." A poem by Lyde Longaker.

Bekah Black

"22"

"I’m gathering days— Paper slowly turning autumnal." A poem by Bekah Black.

A Very Modern Monster:
On Hannibal Lecter

ELLIOT JORDAN

FILM

Lamb and the Double-Edged Sword of Ambitious Filmmaking

SASHO PSHENKO

FINE ARTS & CULTURE

A Room with a View: The Unconventional Art Gallery of Third Floor Window

LILY EKIMIAN

POETRY

“The Me Who Doesn’t Exist”

ROWAN GLADISH

POETRY

Proving a Villain

CHARLES MARLOW

Music

Fine Arts & Culture

House Music

Finding Harmony in the Dichotomies of Lorde’s Solar Power

Artist Duo BUFF’s Collaborative Surface

A Room with a View: The Unconventional Art Gallery of Third Floor Window

Film & Literature

A Very Modern Monster: On Hannibal Lecter

Lamb and the Double-Edged Sword of Ambitious Filmmaking

The Eternal Potency of The Master and Margarita’s Passive Resistance

The Girl, the Home, the Night, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Glorious Cinematic Vampirism

Fiction & Poetry

The Me Who Doesn’t Exist

Two From the Plague Times

“Green Blades”

"22"

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