Sitemap - 2021 - Omnivorous
Discovering the Pleasures of Daniel Craig's James Bond
The Pathos of Performance in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"
Your Weekly Joy: October 6, 2021
Review: "The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers"
Book Review: "The Women of Troy"
Book Review: "The Definitive "Golden Girls" Cultural Reference Guide"
The Pleasures of Poirot: "Appointment with Death"
"The Other Two" and the Pursuit of Queer Happiness
The Transcendent Joy of Seeing "The Golden Girls" on the Big Screen
Mad for Marple: "At Bertram's Hotel"
The Subversive Charms of "Q-Force"
The Pleasures of Poirot: "The ABC Murders"
Book Review: "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency"
The Pleasures of Poirot: "After the Funeral"
Book Review: "Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Princesses of King Edward Longshanks"
The Unapologetic Instability of Archer
Your Weekly Joy: September 4, 2021
"Physical" and the Demythologizing of Reagan's America
Book Review: "The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine"
Book Review: "Daughters of Sparta"
The Queer Pathos of Jennifer Coolidge
Your Weekly Joy: August 26, 2021
The Beautiful Cynicism of "The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf"
"The Chair" and the Pain and Joy of Being Seen
OnlyFans and the American Sex Panic
What "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" Got Right
Midsommar and the Time/Space of Horror
American Horror Stories and the Horrors of (Post)Modernity
The Surprising Optimism of "American Horror Story"
The Sexual Politics of "Domina"
Dr. Death and the Shortcomings of the Docudrama
Book Review: "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation"
The Perils and Pleasures of Being Queerly Different
"The Kominsky Method" Shows the Joys and Sorrows of Aging
On Being an Academic Expatriate
Book Review: "The Children of Jocasta"
Maybe It's a Good Thing if "Luca" Isn't Queer
Book Review: "American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
The Decline and Fall of Andrew Sullivan
Book Review: "Dominus: A Novel of the Roman Empire"
Book Review: "Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal"
Book Review: "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs"
A Tale of Two Swords: Why "King Arthur" and "Cursed" Fail to Capture the Essence of a Mythos
Book Review: "God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World"
Antiquity is Everywhere--and this Presents Classicists with a Golden Opportunity
The Humanizing Power of Performance in "The Golden Girls"
Disney Villains and the Death of Imagination
The Subtle Radicalism of "Rutherford Falls"
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Queer Friendship
The Enduring Appeal of the Tudors
Alison Weir, the Six Tudor Queens, and the Pleasures of Historical Fiction
The Piercing Poignancy of Queer Narratives
Book Review: "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story"
The Perils and Pleasures of the Biopic
Gardening, Grandmothers, and Family Heritage
Book Review: "The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters"
Liz Cheney, Popular Culture, and the Conservative Women Conundrum
Lil Nas X and the Perils and Pleasures of Gay Sex
"Wolfwalkers" and the Enchantment of 2D Animation
Book Review: "Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency"
Book Review: "Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire"
The Oscars, In Memoriam, and Hollywood's Relentless Search for the New
The Tragic Temporality of Animal Companionship
Andrew Sullivan and the Toxicity of Both-Sides-Ism
Book Review: "Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century"
Book Review: "Mike Nichols: A Life"
Book Review: "The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto"
Book Review: "The Last Queen: Elizabeth II's Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor"
Watching "Chernobyl" in the time of COVID
The MonsterVerse and the Absurd Contradictions of the Anthropocene
"Suicide Squad," "Birds of Prey," and the Future of the DCEU
Book Review: "The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town"
The Joyous Sublime of "Schitt's Creek"
"Zack Snyder's Justice League" and the Dark Side of the Epic
Book Review: "Surviving Autocracy"
Thank You For Being a Fan: On Being a Recovering Academic and the Phenomenon of Jealous Fandom
Book Review: "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"
Book Review: "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth"
Book Review: "All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson"
Book Review: "Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy"
Book Review: "Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now"
Gazing at Extinction: Film, Photography, and the Specter of the Vanished
TV Review: "Framing Britney Spears"
Book Review: "Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise"
Martin Scorsese and the Myopia of Cinephilia
How Watching Old Movies with my Grandma Turned Me Gay
Book Review: America and Iran: A History from 1720 to the Present
Barack Obama's Memoir, "A Promised Land" Reminds Us of the Power of Optimism
Book Review: "Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America"
Book Review: "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation"
If You Want to Understand White Poverty in America, Watch Showtime's Shameless
Now is the Time to Act on Voter Suppression
The Terror and the Beauty of Genndy Tartatovsky's "Primal"
For the Love of Hillary Clinton
To Move Into the Future, the GOP Must Acknowledge and Deal with Its Past
Bridgerton, Trash, and the Costume Drama Conundrum
There's an Intellectual Rot at the Heart of Modern Conservative Thought
Political, cultural, and social commentary from a quasi-academic perspective