by Shannon Young | Jul 24, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2025
I Get So Hungry When You Say You Love Me: Feminist Cannibalism TWO UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS about Mimi Cave’s 2022 horror-romance Fresh: One, the meatball of human flesh, resting heavy and crimson atop a bed of pasta, is mouthwatering. Two, Sebastian Stan, playing an...
by Angie Bonilla | Jul 24, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2025
Writing Herself Into the Frame: Jenna Ortega and the Aesthetics of Latina Self-Authorship “Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill,” (1628), Pieter Claesz. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. IN THE NETFLIX series Wednesday (2022–), writing is...
by Alejandro Concas-Rivas | Jul 24, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2025
Is Your Outfit Saying More than You Are? NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Manhattan. The Fashion District. Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Breaths hang heavy in the winter evening air as the final day of New York Fashion Week draws to a close. The streets buzz with the residual...
by Abel Reyes | Jul 24, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2025
On Infamous Crimes Against Nature What began as unremarkable arrests in the quiet suburbs of Boise, Idaho, quickly escalated into a scandal that gripped the nation. On Halloween night in 1955, three men—Ralph Cooper, Charles Brokaw, and Vernon Cassel—were taken into...
by Emily Martin | Jul 24, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2025
The Women Historical Fiction Forgets SOME WOMEN’S STORIES demand patience. I have learned this over the years through my research on food history and pouring over women’s letters, draft manuscripts, and clipped recipes. And not all of their stories are equally...
by Publab Alumni | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
As Invisible as Possible: Jose Antonio Villarán on Translating Album of Fences I felt an immediate connection with poet Omar Pimienta when we met at orientation. We were both starting graduate programs at the University of California, San Diego — I was in the MFA...
