by Claudia Martínez Rivera | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
“No suelte’ la bandera ni olvide’ el lelolai”: (Re)Imagining Lo Jíbaro From Manuel Alonso to Bad Bunny When I first saw the NFL and Apple Music’s announcement that Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, professionally known as Bad Bunny, would be the sole headliner for the...
by Sophia Meimaris | Jul 23, 2026 | Essays, Essays 2026
Enter the Pyrocene…Through Sebald: How W. G. Sebald Anticipated a World Full of Fire IN TROUBLED TIMES, works of fiction blaze a path between bygone eras and the present. The best stand the test of time and offer a cogent perspective on our present world. Readers...
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...
