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Haunted by the Narrative

Finding my way in and out of the Story Woods.

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Tony (2026) and What a Suicide Means

Thinking through the Bourdain biopic

Incest in my Dragon and Vampire Shows?

It's more likely than you'd think.

The Odyssey and the Modern

Guilt, Violence and Technology in Nolan's Latest Film

Oedipus Biden

I watched My Son Hunter for some reason

Zionism, Ulysses and Antisemitism

A Response to Phelim McAleer's article "Ireland's Spiral of Antisemitism"

Who's Afraid of the Social Model of Disability?

Disability Studies’ major contribution, in the disciplines early days of the 1970s and 80s, was the Social Model of Disability.

What kind of text is a body?

It is clear that bodies, especially in the literature and cinema of the last decade or so, are in some sense privileged texts. They hold a special place in the intertexts we might write and read with.

Texts Upon Texts Upon Texts

Dima Alzayat's Alligator and SJ Scaife's Beckett in the City

Mitski and the Agony/Ecstacy of Boundaries

Mitski’s In A Lake, the first song on her 2026 album Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, is a country song about how the country, small rural communities, will destroy your soul.

Resistant

On The Stinging Fly's Climate Issue