December 31, 2018
Thinking on Dystopia: The Giver and The Time Machine
Lois Lowry’s The Giver, and H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine both present ostensible utopias that are, in fact, dystopias. This makes sense given that a dystopia is defined by its […]
December 6, 2013
Policing the Magical Real: Unarmed Man Shoots Two Women
Imagine this story. An unarmed man behaves erratically in the middle of the street, cars weaving around him and swerving to avoid each other. The flashing screens of 50 feet […]
July 31, 2013
Life is Like a Comic Book
I was raised on comic books. I never read them, but I did flip through them, since my dad gave me one of those long white boxes full of them. […]