500 Days of Summer is a love story that isn’t quite a love story. The guy doesn’t get the girl. They do not go skipping into the sunset and everything is not okay. It has the two best actors (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel). 500 Days of […]

Okay, you caught me. Yes. I am one of those people who has avidly read Vogue for years and still buys the magazine almost every month. And to be honest, anticipating the release of the September issue every year is one of the most exciting […]

I have to admit, the poem “Mrs. Icarus” in Carol Duffy’s “The World’s Wife” made me chuckle to myself. The story of Icarus is one of my favorite Greek myths and I thought that Duffy’s take from Icarus’ wife’s point of view was very clever […]

The poem that really caught my eye in the second half of Duffy’s “Standing Female Nude” was titled War Photographer. Duffy describes a man who is developing film in his dark room. The photos that he is pinning up in the red glow are of soldiers […]

After reading Franco Moretti’s “Abstract Models for Literary History,” I realized just how many different genres and novels that exist in the world. And those numbers simply continue to grow. Moretti points out that more genres are invented all the time and that the number […]

Growing up with a twin can comes with both upsides and downsides. People automatically assume – even though I am a girl and my brother is a boy – that we are identical twins and have the same personality and/or interests. They don’t realize that […]

As I began reading Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” I couldn’t help but think about the parallels between Clarissa and Taylor Swift. The book opens up with Clarissa Dalloway going out to buy some flowers for her party. As she journeys out to the flower shop, […]