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Tag: Culture

Vulvas in Milk:  On The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) and Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

Author’s Note: I am now offering my services on Fiverr. I will beta read your poem(s) and short stories for … More

book review, Book Reviews, books, Culture, Fiction, Film Review, French Cinema, French Literature, georges bataille, Literary Criticism, literature, reviews

Poetry Postmortem #10: Love in the Asylum

After falling ill at the famed Chelsea Hotel, Dylan Thomas was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital where he succumbed to … More

Culture, Dylan Thomas, Literary Criticism, literature, Poetry

Vampires in the Closet: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’

Author’s Note: This is an academic article I wrote on Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market.

Academic Essay, books, Cheristina Rossetti, Culture, Goblin Market, Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism., literature, Poetry Criticsm

Effy Stonem: Gen Z’s Medusa

Instead begin with the body—itself a kindof ending. A new mythology, the severanceof two heads. Where her thighs meet, nogash, … More

Cultural Criticism, Culture, Effy Stonem, Literary Criticism, Memoir, skins, TV

Hoard: Permission to be Gross

Film: Hoard (dir. Luna Carmoon) Run Time: 2h 6m Rating: ★★★★★ “I murdered my mother, you see,” is how Luna … More

Cultural Criticism, Culture, film, Film Essay, Film Review, TV and Film

Mathilda by Mary Shelley: Acts of Creation

I’m sure we can all acknowledge the pressing fact that the surroundings we grow in shape us into who we … More

Culture, Fiction, Literary Criticism, literature

Migration as a Bloodletting

Author’s Note: Happy Gemini season! I will be turning twenty-seven on the 28th of May. This makes me a Gemini … More

Architecture, Culture, lifestyle, philosophy, psychology

Poetry Postmortem (8) / Patient: The Tears of Things by Maya C. Popa

Author’s Note: The Poetry Postmortem is where I take a poem I or someone else wrote and I discuss it … More

Arts, Cultural Criticism, Culture, literature, poems, Poetry, t-s-eliot

For Richer, For Poet

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you … More

Arts, Culture, Funding, playwright, Poetry, Theatre

The Art of Faux Living

There are some of us in this world who refuse to adhere to the machinery of the daily grind. We … More

books, Culture, existentialism, lifestyle, philosophy, Society, Work Culture
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