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 Publab Alumni | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Lessons Learned from a Self-Plagiarist This past year, writer’s block hit me more acutely than ever. Time I had blocked off to write became day-long reading sprees and, when that felt too mentally taxing, hours of binge watching. Clearly, I needed help. That’s why I...
by Derek O'Leary | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Pilgrims at the Plantation “The moment you’ve been waiting for!” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Aaron Burr announces in Act I of Hamilton. “The pride of Mount Vernon: George Washington,” who stomps, stern and capable, onto the stage. (Thanks, Disney+.) There’s little new left...
by Olivia Joyce | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020, Uncategorized
REVELATIONS in Isolation In late March, faced with the new shelter-in-place order and only a faint understanding of the damage COVID-19 was to bring, I turned to my mother’s bookcase for a chance to escape. Luckily, I live with a parent who is a writer, poet, and...
