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If Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman Were a Coming-of-Age Story

Westwind

Nov 5, 2019
4 min

If Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman Were a Coming-of-Age Story

By Vivien Adamian I bought Hangsaman on a whim, since I had a curiosity towards Shirley Jackson’s work and had never really read any...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: No or Great Expectations?

Westwind

Nov 4, 2019
4 min

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: No or Great Expectations?

By Peyton Austin Twelve minutes into the Academy Award-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the main protagonist, Miles...

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“Imagine yourself as someone who’s valuable for more than your pain”: An interview with Larissa Pham

“The immigrant story has its own charm”: An Interview with Boris Dralyuk

Ars Poetica as the Maker: The Metapoetics of Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother

“What you are aching to tell”: An Interview with Xuan Juliana Wang

Sad Girl Blues

A “Language for Loss and Grief”: An Interview with Ayesha Raees

Beyond the Best Seller: The Brilliance of Elena Ferrante

Beckett’s Absurdist Plays are a Tragic Comfort for the Twenty-First Century Person

I Seek The Truth: The Many Inconsistencies in Frozen 2’s Soundtrack

An Ode to the Ostentatious

Bad Feminist or Bad Writing?: Misunderstood Female Characters

If Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman Were a Coming-of-Age Story