by Ruddy Lopez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Lineage and Language Throughout my adulthood, curanderas have said that my grandmother watches over me. I knew this was true when my mother came back from a visit to Mexico five years ago. She opened her suitcase and handed me a white plastic rosary and a black shawl....
by Julissa Guerrero Iniguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Euphoria’s Minor Mother Euphoria debuted on HBO in 2019, meeting with almost universal critical acclaim. The show is a teen drama that explicitly confronts controversial subjects like drug addiction, abusive relationships, and mental illness. At the show’s center is...
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...
by Shweta Deshpande | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Photographs: New Perspectives on Travel Cambodia is the land of Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site more widely known than the country itself. “City of the Gods” and “Kingdom of Wonder;” these are some of the ways in which the temple complex has been...
by Jeanny Fuentes | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Challenging Patriarchy in María de Zayas’s “Novelas” The virtual archival exhibit Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age, curated by Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the National Library of...
