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Book Review: "The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England"
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "The Departure of Boromir"
Film Review: "The Boy and the Heron"
Book Review: "Sister of Starlit Seas"
TV Review: "The Crown" Finally Gives Its Senior Cast the Chance to Shine
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "The Breaking of the Fellowship"
TV Review: The Apotheosis of "The Gilded Age"
"Good Omens," "The Wheel of Time," and the Power of Queer Tragedy
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "The Great River"
Film Review: "All of Us Strangers"
Of Hershey Kisses and Percolated Coffee
Film Review: "Saltburn" and the Pleasures of Provocation
Book Review: "A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire"
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "Farewell to Lórien"
Film Review: "Napoleon" and the Violent Absurdity of Power
Book Review: "Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars"
Re-Reading "The Eye of the World": "Chapter 13: Choices" and "Chapter 14: The Stag and the Lion"
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "The Mirror of Galadriel”
Elagabalus and the Desire for a Queer Past
Film Review Double Feature: "The Holdovers" and "Priscilla"
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "Lothlórien”
TV Review: "The Crown" and the Diana Problem
"Grace and Frankie" Is the Best Sitcom of the 2010s (and Maybe the 21st Century)
TV Review: "Fellow Travelers" and the Contradictions of Queerness
TV Review: The Beauty and the Terror of "Scavengers Reign"
Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm”
Book Review: "Boyfriend Material"
Ridley Scott, "Napoleon," and the Persistent Question of Historical Accuracy
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: "A Journey in the Dark"
Book Review: "The Bell in the Fog"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: The Ring Goes South"
TV Review: "Our Flag Means Death" Season Two
TV Review: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: The Council of Elrond"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: Many Meetings"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: Flight to the Ford"
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: What Was Meant to Be" (Season 2, Episode 8)
Re-Reading "The Wheel of Time": "Chapter 4: The Gleeman"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings": "A Knife in the Dark"
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: Daes Dae'mar" (Season 2, Episode 7)
Book Review: "The Phoenix King"
"She Said" and the Raw Power of the Female Voice
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "Strider"
Re-Reading "The Wheel of Time": "Chapter 3: The Peddler"
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: Eyes Without Pity" (Season 2, Episode 6)
Re-Reading "The Wheel of Time": "Chapter 2: Strangers"
Film Review: "A Haunting in Venice"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: At the Sign of the Prancing Pony"
Re-Reading "The Wheel of Time": "Prologue: Dragonmount" and "Chapter 1: An Empty Road"
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: Damane" (Season 2, Episode 5)
Book Review: "Medusa's Sisters"
Queer Film Double Feature: "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" and "Bottoms"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings": "Fog on the Barrow-downs"
Queer Villain Spotlight: Marla Grayson ("I Care A Lot")
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: Daughter of the Night" (Season 2, Episode 4)
The Fierce, Vibrant Optimism of "He Who Drowned the World"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings": "In the House of Tom Bombadil"
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: What Might Be" (Season 2, Episode 3)
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: Strangers and Friends" (Season 2, Episode 2)
TV Review: "The Wheel of Time: A Taste of Solitude" (Season 2, Episode 1)
"Glamorous," "Red, White & Royal Blue," and the Queer Fun of Letting Go
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings": "The Old Forest"
TV Review: "Domina" (Season 2)
Book Review: "Cassiel's Servant"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: A Conspiracy Unmasked"
Book Review: "The Sapphire Altar"
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" Puts the Fun Back in the Superhero Genre
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: A Shortcut to Mushrooms"
Agency and Impotence in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer"
Fiction: "The Last Flight of the Phynix"
TV Review: "The Witcher" (Season 3, Volume 2)
The Radical Power of Queer Intimacy in Season Two of "Heartstopper"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: Three Is Company"
Film Review: "Lie with Me" (2022)
Book Review: "In an Orchard Grown from Ash"
Tolkien Tuesday: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings: The Shadow of the Past"
Reading History: "The King's Pleasure"
The Sublime, Feminist Humanism of "Barbie"
Tolkien Tuesdays: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings": "A Long-Expected Party"
Book Review: "A Restless Truth"
"Joy Ride" and the Pleasures of the Unruly Woman
Tolkien Tuesdays: Re-Reading "The Lord of the Rings": "Prologue"
Queer Villain Spotlight: Waldo Lydecker (Laura)
Tolkien Tuesdays: The Sadness of Ian McKellen
Book Review: "Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World"
Wes Anderson, "Asteroid City," and the Magic of the Moving Image
Book Review: "The Bone Shard War"
"Nimona" and the Enduring Power of Queer Animation
Tolkien Tuesday: The Curious Case of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power"
TV Review: "The Witcher" (Season 3, Volume 1)
Queer Villain Spotlight: Richard III (Richard III)
Book Review: Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
Capitalism and the Death of Culture
Queer Villain Spotlight: Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan (Rope)
Exploring Queerness and Identity in Elizabeth Bear's "The Lotus Kingdoms"
Film Review: "The Little Mermaid"
Book Review: "Homer and His Iliad"
Revisiting "The Prince of Egypt"
Reading History: "Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley"
The Poignancy of Friendship in "Somebody Somewhere"
Book Review: "Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age"
Tolkien Fans, We MUST Do Better About the Racism in Our Midst
If You Can't Beat Writer's Block Without AI, Then Maybe You Shouldn't Be a Writer
Red States Really do Want Queers to Die
Fifty Shades of "Mommie Dearest"
QAnon Is an Even Greater, Graver Danger than We Realized
The Sadness of "Queen Charlotte"
The De-Queering of Baron Harkonnen
Rediscovering the Joys of Feline Companionship
Book Review: "Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise"
Bearing it All: Subverting the Patriarchy in "Cocaine Bear"
Book Review: "Sunset Boulevard" (BFI Film Classics)
Queer Historical Fiction and the Vexing Question of Accuracy
Harry Potter and the Decline of Hollywood Imagination
"Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" is a Triumph for Fun Fantasy
John Wick and the Enduring Power of Male Melodrama
Is There a Place for the Critic in the Age of Streaming?
The Timely Wisdom of "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse"
Season 2 of "Shadow and Bone" Is Great Fantasy Television
The Enduring Relevance of "Island of Lost Souls" (1932)
The Triumphant Queerness of "The Last Hero"
Rewatching "The Lord of the Rings" and the Deliberate Pleasure of Close Reading
"M3GAN" and the Terrifying Potential of the Queer Child
The Bittersweet Sting of First Love in "Of An Age"
The Emotional Honesty of "Spoiler Alert"
Maybe We Really Don't Need More Tolkien Movies
The Enduring Appeal of Jennifer Lopez
With "The Little Mermaid," Disney Has Totally Lost the Plot
The Sly Cynicism of "The Last of Us"
Penn Badgley, the Purity Police, and the Joy of Viewing Twitter as Performance Art
The Emotional Maturity of "All Creatures Great and Small"
The Pleasant Optimism of "That '90s Show"
The Exhausting, Vulgar Banality of "Babylon"
My Week in Fantasy--February 2, 2023
"The Witcher: "Blood Origin" and the Too-Few-Episodes Problem
Book Review: "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America"