Virginia Woolf Meets House Party
At what point does Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and the 1990 cinematic classic, House Party, intersect? Many points, actually, according to this incisive comparison of the two done by Sean Gill for The Offing.
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Panel Mania: ‘A Fire Story’ by Brian Fies
The Millions is pleased to offer readers a 10-page excerpt from A Fire Story, a work of graphic nonfiction about the devastating wildfire that destroyed 6,200 homes—including that of cartoonist Brian Fies—in Northern California in 2017.
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What Is Italian America? It’s Complicated
The hybridized nature of what it has always meant to be Italian provides a model to avoid the noxious nationalisms that increasingly define our era.
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Rilke, Nietzsche, and More in ’90s Movies
For LitHub, Emily Temple compiled 50 literary cameos in '90s movies, ranging from Cher and Peyton Place to Lauryn Hill and Rilke, with plenty of Shakespeare throughout.
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The Good Place: The Millions Interviews Elizabeth McCracken
Feeling competitive with other writers is impossible to get away from entirely, but it’s a useless emotion. There’s no way to measure it. It’s not bowling.
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If on a Winter’s Night a Computer
We are now witnessing the glittering inception of the AI author, and computers are taking their first clumsy steps towards literature.
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American Public Libraries: A Visual History
Public libraries remain our country's greatest democratic institutions, but it took generations of work and social progress to get them to their current place as beacons to their communities.
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Does Size Matter? A Conversation with Three Filmmakers
I am first and foremost a storyteller. Short films or feature-length films are just various sizes of a blank canvas.
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They Are Not Calling to You: Featured Poetry by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
A great second-person poem is narrated both toward us and past us, its words skimming off our shoulders but leaving marks.
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