by Manon Hakem-Lemaire | Jun 21, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Jews of “Latin” America “He’s Mexican,” I told my French mom about my boyfriend. “Oh, does he have a mustache and a sombrero?” she replied, amused. After months spent in Mexico, mostly among the Jewish community, I was taken aback by my mom’s comment. Where did this...
by Kersti Francis | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Fleeing Backwards: The Problematic Present in Medieval Studies When and how do we talk about the attitudes of an entire field? These conversations often occur in office hours, not in articles, emerging over drinks at conferences or in fights in closed Facebook groups....
by Kelly Alblinger | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Notes From a Saint Life lessons have the tendency to sneak up on us. Often, we’re going about our business, doing what we do, and a message from the universe smacks us upside the head without warning. If we are paying attention, the impact can be life-altering. Our...
by Marissa Mika | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Nesting For years, we had cats. Gigantic rescue cats, retrieved from a Philadelphia parking lot when they were only a pair of gray and black kittens, as benign and rambunctious as the cubs in Tiger King. But they grew into the sort of cats who fantasized all day long...
by Alexander Billet | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Apocalypse Songs: On the Music of Algiers Algiers are, unmistakably, a band well-acquainted with late capitalism’s structure of feeling. Journalists who dubbed their sound “dystopian groove” summed them up accurately. Their distinct, post-punk mélange of electro,...
by Arielle Stambler | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Doomsday Machine: Teaching Literature Now Literary study offers an opportunity to suspend disbelief, to imagine the world not as it is, but as it could be. This is the line I write on the syllabus for every undergraduate English course I teach. I want to...
