Unhuman Habitats: The Works and Worlds of Franz Kafka
There are few writers who are as infamously cruel to their characters as Franz Kafka.
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Sasho Pshenko
- Mar 1
The Donkey, the Horse, and the Human Condition: Nihilism in Au Hasard Balthazar and The Turin Horse
Two bleak and philosophical films centering around mysterious animals provide us with a prism through which to view our own human world.
Carolina Alamilla
- Feb 17
Exploring "Among Women: Contemporary Art from Serbia"
Carolina Alamilla attends the exhibition and finds in its works an examination of space, gender, body, and time.
Julia Ferreira
- Jan 31
"Regrowth"
"It wasn’t what you lost / That broke you." A poem by Julia Ferreira.
Sasho Pshenko
- Jan 24
Trapped Inside the Castle: Finding Kafka and Nausea in Spencer
Sasho Pshenko explores Spencer and how its depiction of Princess Diana bears a striking resemblance to the Kafkaesque world.
Ben Gibbons
- Jan 18
The Collaborative Spirit of INEZ
Ben Gibbons sits down with INEZ to discuss her art, the city, and everything in between.
Joe Mruk
- Jan 10
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.
Rowan Gladish
- Dec 3, 2021
"The Me Who Doesn’t Exist"
"How odd it is / that we don't bury / the people we used to be." A poem by Rowan Gladish.
Elliot Jordan
- Dec 3, 2021
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.
Brett Sullivan Santry
- Nov 15, 2021
Two From the Plague Times
Two poems by Brett Sullivan Santry.
Sasho Pshenko
- Nov 11, 2021
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.
Carolina Alamilla
- Nov 2, 2021
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
- Oct 27, 2021
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.
Sasho Pshenko
- Oct 21, 2021
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.
Kelsey Swintek
- Oct 13, 2021
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.
Sasho Pshenko
- Oct 11, 2021
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.
Ben Gibbons
- Oct 7, 2021
The Confounding and Eclectic Andrew Muse
Musician Andrew Muse is something of an enigma, with a style and repertoire both difficult to define and difficult to find, respectively.
Lyde Longaker
- Oct 6, 2021
“Green Blades”
"Words spring up / Like neon spikes / From fallow fields / Of endless rows that / Speak unheard." A poem by Lyde Longaker.
Bekah Black
- Oct 6, 2021
"22"
"I’m gathering days— Paper slowly turning autumnal." A poem by Bekah Black.
