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Betty Smith, Coffee, and the Existence of Beauty.

Fiction

Mary’s Room

Books

Terrible Fish: Women and Mirrors in Literature

Culture

The Mysterious History of the Black Madonna

Books

Is Harry Potter a White Savior Story?

Books

Is Harry Potter a White Savior Story?

How the once celebrated allegory falls short in 2020. Continue reading Is Harry Potter a White Savior Story?

Sophie RouthierSeptember 16, 2020October 21, 20202 Comments
Books

“The Turn of the Screw”: Sex, Ghosts, and… Feminism?

The Turn of the Screw is an excellent book to read if you enjoy feeling confused and upset: for a comparable experience you can take LSD or sit in a tub of spiders. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Continue reading “The Turn of the Screw”: Sex, Ghosts, and… Feminism?

Sophie RouthierAugust 16, 2020October 21, 20202 Comments
Culture

The Unknowability of Knowing: What Qualia Can Tell Us About the Arts

If you mapped every neural-pathway in my brain, would you know what it’s like to be me? Continue reading The Unknowability of Knowing: What Qualia Can Tell Us About the Arts

Sophie RouthierAugust 12, 2020October 21, 2020
Culture

On the Demonization of Women and Cats

Most of the unpleasant tendencies we attribute to cats have historically been attributed to ill-behaved women: cold, heartless, deceitful, untrustworthy, scheming and self-sufficient. Continue reading On the Demonization of Women and Cats

Sophie RouthierJuly 30, 2020October 21, 2020
Books

The Problem With Dystopias

I understand the appeal of dystopian novels—but the genre is flawed. Continue reading The Problem With Dystopias

Sophie RouthierJuly 27, 2020July 28, 2020
Culture

Be Ready For Anything: The Legend of Ten Cent Beer Night

Five years before Disco Demolition Night, Cleveland Indians fans invented the baseball riot. Continue reading Be Ready For Anything: The Legend of Ten Cent Beer Night

Sophie RouthierJuly 24, 2020July 28, 2020
Fiction

The Bluejay

It was hot out, and Eve was waiting for the blue jay to fly past her window again. Continue reading The Bluejay

Sophie RouthierJuly 22, 2020July 28, 2020
Culture

Martha Mitchell: Prisoner of the GOP

The story of the first person to tell the world about Watergate—and the Republican officials who conspired to stop her. Continue reading Martha Mitchell: Prisoner of the GOP

Sophie RouthierJuly 19, 2020July 28, 2020
Fiction

Moth

Someday I will be a leaf on a tree or a coffee pot and I won’t mind anything, and I won’t need anything I can’t have. Continue reading Moth

Sophie RouthierJuly 7, 2020July 28, 2020
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The History of the “Crazy” Woman in Literature

From “Hamlet” to “The Bluest Eye”, the troubled history of mentally ill women in literature. Continue reading The History of the “Crazy” Woman in Literature

Sophie RouthierJuly 4, 2020September 29, 2020

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