Regeneration
After Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Barefoot and bewildered, climbing through barbed wire, Baffled by blackness. A choir of conundrums begins to hum— The sun…
Social Hierarchies and Subtle Sabotage: Jane Austen’s “Mean Girls”
Bitches in Bonnets is a stunning and irreverent tribute to a fine pairing: women and Jane Austen. In this personal and sociological piece of literary criticism, Makowski…
Misunderstood Motherhood: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds
Picasso’s La Vie demonstrates the split characterization of the western woman. On the left, a woman clings in the nude to her lover’s arms. On the right,…