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Columns

Classified: Women of Sci-Fi

By April Wolfe
June 28, 2019
The future is female: the latest genre column singles out examples of the wide range of science fiction written by women

Present Tense: Sylvia Plath Goes to the Movies

By Sheila O'Malley
June 27, 2019
Something fresh and strange: newly released letters reveal the prominent presence of movies in the poet’s life

Higher Learning: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary

By Becca Voelcker
June 20, 2019
“We go to the garden, we grow in the garden”: Robertson’s autobiography includes a network of interactions with plants, animals, and weather

Feeling Seen: Edward Yang’s Yi Yi

By Lawrence Garcia
June 13, 2019
Mirror of nature: how shifting languages and dialects evoke the personal and political in Yang's family epic

Present Tense: Rolling Thunder Revue

By Sheila O'Malley
June 12, 2019
I contain multitudes: on Dylan, Whitman, and Scorsese’s new Rolling Thunder Revue documentary

Present Tense: Infinite Brando

By Sheila O'Malley
May 31, 2019
Tennis anyone? In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace gets at the heart of Brando’s art

Classified: Action Cinematography

By April Wolfe
May 29, 2019
Blow up: cameras in action, from The Great Train Robbery to Mad Max: Fury Road

Feeling Seen: JT LeRoy

By Mackenzie Lukenbill
May 28, 2019
Crossing lines: Kristen Stewart turns in another in a series of gender-blurring roles

Feeling Seen: Roberto Gavaldón, Misanthrope

By Carlos Valladares
May 22, 2019
Pity and fear: The Mexican filmmaker takes his rightful place as the evil twin of such cinematic poets of fate as Frank Borzage and Jacques Demy

Present Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love

By Sheila O'Malley
May 16, 2019
Love is a battlefield: Aliens’ Hicks and Ripley are an unlikely pair, but “unlikely pairs” are the bread and butter of romance, Hollywood-style