Celebrating the Fauxscars: Why the 2020 Emma Outshines the 1996 Adaptation
By Hannah White It often feels like today is mirroring the Austen craze of the 90s. Historical or period dramas like Bridgerton and The Great…
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6 Great Love Stories to Read this Valentine’s
By Hannah White Love is a central theme of so many great works of literature. And with February on the horizon, many look for great…
The High Mountains of Portugal: A Thoughtful but Underwhelming Study of Grief
by Mary Kate Costigan Never let it be said that Yann Martel doesn’t like wild animals. Fifteen years ago he published Life of Pi, a…
In “Alive, Alive Oh!”, Diana Athill Remembers a Remarkable Life
By Mary Kate Costigan At 97 years old, Diana Athill has a lot of story to tell. Biographical details alone will tell you that those…
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Gives an Unlikely Lesson in Adaptation, is Awesome While Doing So
by Mary Kate Costigan As a teenager, I once made a list of inaccuracies between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and its movie…
The Buried Giant: Why the Fantastic Isn’t Always Important in Fantasy
by Mary Kate Costigan In his first novel in ten years, Booker Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro enters a realm he has never entered before:…
Christopher Buckley Satirizes Medieval Europe in ‘The Relic Master’
by Mary Kate Costigan “Dismas might have purchased the finger bone of the Apostle Thomas, but there was something not quite right about the man…