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"Grace or Delusion?": Transcendental Reckoning in Schrader and Oates

Martyrdom Without Meaning: Joyce Carol Oates and the Author as Political Agent

History, Repression, and the Circular Novel in Thuận’s Elevator in Sài Gòn

Dreaming with Open Eyes: Uncle Boonmee and the Cinema of Impermanence

Final Dispatch: Hope & Scene—Five Modern Asian Masterpieces That Endure

A New Prometheus: Creation, Abandonment, and the Soul in Blade Runner

The Monster and the Mirror: Mary Shelley's Ethics of Creation

The Man at the Threshold: The Searchers and the Rot of Myth

On Heart of Darkness: Horror, Recognition, and the Echo in the River

Synthetic Soul: Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 and Modern Hollywood's Factory Settings

William T. Vollmann's Europe Central and the Limits of Maximalism

Citizen Kane and the Burden of Greatness

Hamlet and Shakespeare's Theatre of Endurance

Drawing Rooms and Dismantling Forms: Altman After Austen

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and the Rise of the Modern Novel

The White Lotus and "The Afterlife of the Novel"?

Reading Memento: Time, Structure, and Mind

Post-Human Longing: Michel Houellbecq's The Possibility of an Island

Fatal Aesthetics: Mishima and Paul Schrader's Cinema of Obsession

Suicide as Style: The Life and Death of Harry Crosby

Waiting for History: The Magic Mountain in an Age of Crisis

Falling Snow, Fading Love: Beauty and Impermanence in Snow Country

Mountains of Meaning: Ascent and Transcendence in Ikiru

Endurance as Complicity in The Brutalist

Stoicism and Cynicism: Peaks of the Human Spirit

Blonde and the Violence of Hollywood Mythmaking

“We Had Faces”: The Madness of Sunset Boulevard

Being Eve Babitz: L.A.’s Ultimate Chronicler

Limelight and Babylon: Hollywood’s Myths, Scandals, and the Endurance of Cinema

The Curse of Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger and the Anti-Hollywood Tradition

Burnout and Neon Nihilism: Han’s Modern Subject in the Films of Gregg Araki

The Prophet of Burnout: On the Remedies of Byung-Chul Han

Loving Too Much: The Colourful Extremes of Betty Blue

The Colour of Thought: William H. Gass and Interior Life