A look at Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. I have mixed feelings on this one...

Enter Four Murderers - M4cbeth. An in depth look at four Macbeth films

A deep dive into one of my favorite comic book heroes: Wonder Woman. A close look at this kind of overlooked icon, her character, her meani

A look at Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "The Bride of Lammermoor" and some comparisons with the opera it inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor"

Part 3 of my series on Moby Dick and its adaptations, looking at Christophe Chaboute's 2017 graphic novel.

A dive into the medium specific techniques and "language" of comic books.

A dive into Leo Tolstoy's 1878 masterpiece "Anna Karenina."

Flashback to a college essay I wrote circa 2000 about William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

Part 1 of a series on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick," looking at style, structure, and the themes of proto-cosmic horror and nihilism.

Part 1 of a look at Dracula in media, starting with Bram Stoker's 1897 novel and Michael Pink's 1996 ballet.

The second in a two-part look at R.F. Kuang's novels Babel and Yellowface and the ways they reflect on each other.

The first in a two-part look at R.F. Kuang's novels Babel and Yellowface and the ways they reflect on each other.

A look back at some of the best books I read in 2019.