China’s Eiffel Tower: Nostalgic Replication
Out of the city centre rises the sensual curve, exquisite metalwork, and sharp spire of the Eiffel Tower. Below it stretches a broad …
Unsheltered: The Novel as Handmaiden to Politics
“I’m glad you decided to come here when you could, uh, be somewhere else,” Barbara Kingsolver says to her audience …
Nostalgia for a Childhood Favorite, but Wishing for More
When I was in elementary school, I passed the slow, hot afternoons of summer listening to my mother read aloud …
Bruegel’s Icarus: Responding to Suffering in the Media Age
It seems that we wake each morning to a new story of tragedy. Some, like the Parkland shooting, remain in …