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Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)

April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 driftlessareareview

Dances with Wolves was a terrible movie. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)

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Translation Tuesdays: Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm

October 8, 2024October 5, 2024 driftlessareareview

Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm, is a gut-wrenching exploration about how war can tear families apart. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm

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Translation Tuesdays: Birth Canal, by Dias Novita Wuri

October 24, 2023October 22, 2023 driftlessareareview

In four interrelated stories, Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri explores the torturous relations between men and women. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Birth Canal, by Dias Novita Wuri

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Critic’s Notebook: Random Thoughts on the Barbie movie

July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 driftlessareareview

Barbie is a quest narrative. Continue reading Critic’s Notebook: Random Thoughts on the Barbie movie

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CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part Five

June 11, 2023June 4, 2023 driftlessareareview

What Makin does in his literary projects is create meaning by both stripping down and overloading language with meaning. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part Five

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Commonplace Book: Coriolanus and the mob

November 8, 2022November 6, 2022 driftlessareareview

“With every minute you change a mind,
And call him noble that was now your hate,
Him vile that was your garland.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: Coriolanus and the mob

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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: SOME THOUGHTS ON DUNE (2021)

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 driftlessareareview

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: SOME THOUGHTS ON DUNE (2021) Neither a “hot take” nor a full-blown movie review, this essay is more inchoate and formless. More a chance to ruminate on the current blockbuster. Media analysis at its most impressionistic; less a … Continue reading CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: SOME THOUGHTS ON DUNE (2021)