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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