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Capes of Wrath
The stuff of comic books is essentially a raw, undiluted breed of native magical realism, American in origin and as ingrained in our culture as jazz, baseball, or the WWE. Samuel Sattin discusses comics, masculinity, and his debut novel, League of Somebodies. Continue reading
Basterds Unchained: The Revenge of Artistic License
A devoted film-goer takes on the vitriol aimed at Tarantino’s most recent additions to American cinema, and mulls over the legitimacy of revenge fantasies. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Popular Culture
Tagged African-American, Anti-Semitism, Artistic License, Black, Christopher Hitchens, Conservative, Django Unchained, Eli Roth, Holocaust, Inglorious Basterds, Ishmael Reed, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jewish, Kosher Porn, Liberal, Nazis, Quentin Tarantino, racism, Revenge Fantasy, Roxane Gay, slavery, Spike Lee
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My Boyfriend, Jesus
In which Diana Spechler reminisces about her college boyfriend, who thought he was Jesus. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Bill Clinton, Boulder, Buzz Aldrin, demons, farting, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Jesus, Jewish, Mary Magdalene, schizophrenic, vampire
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