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A Healthy Slice
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2009-11-01) -
Aesthetic Bliss: How Vladimir Nabokov Uses Unreliable Narration in Lolita to Create Better Readers
(Pacific University & Central Washington University, 2022-08-09)In his most famous novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov created one of the most intricate, memorable, and maddening narrators in literature. By firmly positioning Humbert Humbert as a mis-handler of fact and purveyor of his own ... -
All the women in the state of Texas
(The Believer, 2017-11-20) -
Book review: Was Roger Clemens railroaded?
(The Florida Times-Union, 2017-04-02) -
Comic Resolution, Humorous Loose Ends in Austen's Novels
(Jane Austen Society of North America, 2011)Jane Austen's masterful control of tone camouflages the situation of the fictional characters at the end of her novels. At the end of Sense and Sensibility, Marianne Dashwood may share responsibility for her new husband's ... -
Critical Cataloging and the Serials Archive: The Digital Making of “Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print”
(Archive Journal, 2019-11) -
Dancing in September
(Sixth Finch, 2018) -
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse
(University of Chicago Press, 2022)This essay grapples with how Asian American women have been increasingly positioned as the idealized maternal subjects of a neoliberal world order. The “tiger mother,” as popularized by Amy Chua, can be considered a recent ... -
Disability and Racial Justice: Critical Intersections and Dialogues
(UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities, 2022-04-13) -
DO NOT RISE BY BETH BACHMANN
(The Rumpus, 2016-02-12) -
Drawing Circles with Time
Just before sunset, in early March, it was finally warm enough to go out on my back porch to have a glass of wine before dinner. I opened the storm door and stepped out, the glass cupped in my hand. Across the alley, the ... -
Figuring an Ethical Reading Practice: Anne Carson’s ‘Whaching’
(Universidad de Huelva, 2013) -
Finding the Lost River
(Blood and Thunder, 2020-08) -
Finding the Lost River
(Pendust Radio, 2020) -
Found among the Papers: Fictions of Textual Discovery in Early America
(The University of North Carolina Press, 2021-10-30)Though modeled on the insistent factuality that had defined prefatory material in fiction a century earlier (what scholars have called the pseudofactual mode), the narrative frame of the found manuscript utilized in early ... -
George and Georgiana: Symmetries and Antitheses in Pride and Prejudice
Even after multiple re-readings of Pride and Prejudice, the character of George Wickham repays close detection. He does not “unfold”—even multiple re-readings do not deepen him into a character for the reader to relate ...