Unhuman Habitats: The Works and Worlds of Franz Kafka




- Mar 1, 2022
The Donkey, the Horse, and the Human Condition: Nihilism in Au Hasard Balthazar and The Turin Horse


- Jan 24, 2022
Trapped Inside the Castle: Finding Kafka and Nausea in Spencer


- Dec 3, 2021
A Very Modern Monster: On Hannibal Lecter


- Nov 11, 2021
Lamb and the Double-Edged Sword of Ambitious Filmmaking


- Oct 21, 2021
The Eternal Potency of The Master and Margarita’s Passive Resistance


- Oct 11, 2021
The Girl, the Home, the Night, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Glorious Cinematic Vampirism

- Aug 23, 2021
Life, Art, and Imitation in Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up

- Aug 4, 2021
The Self-Defeating Nature of Experimental Films


- Jul 27, 2021
Youssef Chahine’s Egypt in Seven Movies

- Jul 20, 2021
America in Miniature: Exploring Ed Simon’s An Alternative History of Pittsburgh


- Jul 6, 2021
Moving Through the Worlds of Christian Petzold’s Phoenix

- Jul 1, 2021
Eight Epic Novels to Throw Yourself into This Summer


- Jun 12, 2021
Is The Father a Pointless Circle?


- Jun 12, 2021
The Man with the Wind at His Heels: On Wolf Hall


- Apr 28, 2021
Braddock According to Buba: The Frank Filmmaking of Lightning Over Braddock

- Nov 13, 2020
Storytelling in a World “Without God”

- Nov 8, 2020
N. K. Jemisin’s Recipes for Here-and-Now

- Oct 5, 2020
Class Struggles in Fairyland: Strange Evil and War for the Oaks

- Sep 19, 2020
The Philosophy of I’m Thinking of Ending Things

- Aug 31, 2020
The Written Word is a Fairy: Lud-in-the-Mist as Modernist Fantasy

- Aug 14, 2020
To Russia, With Love: On Douglas Dunn’s The Donkey’s Ears

- Jul 21, 2020
Saints and Sinners: Robert Browning and Rome


- Jul 2, 2020
Is Hollywood’s Structural Racism Beyond Repair?


- Jun 29, 2020
The Female Perspective of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion

- Jun 13, 2020
William Greaves’ Experiment: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One as Performance Art

- May 22, 2020
The Soviet Dream? Thoughts on Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty

- Apr 18, 2020
In Dreams: The Reality of David Lynch’s Fantasies

- Mar 18, 2020
Imperial Noir: Reading Joseph Conrad


- Jan 19, 2020
Antonioni: A Filmmaker for Our Time

- Jan 15, 2020
An Argument in Favor of Technical Blunders in Film

- Dec 25, 2019
Lobsters and Mermaids: Sexual Frustration in The Lighthouse


- Dec 7, 2019
Pontecorvo's Ghost: The Lasting Relevance of The Battle of Algiers


- Nov 27, 2019
Things We Find in the Book Section: The Case Against(?) Literary Minimalism


- Nov 4, 2019
The Magic of a David Sedaris Book Signing


- Nov 4, 2019
The Exciting Dreams of Boring People in the Films of Luis Buñuel


- Nov 4, 2019
The Master’s Thread: A Paul Thomas Anderson Retrospective

- Nov 4, 2019
Terrifying Averageness and John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio”