Category: Essay
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Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and Facilitators
Read more: Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and FacilitatorsWe consider several different scenarios: in bed together, you eat chocolate, you feel happy and guilty, you eat more chocolate there is a deadline for a Valentine’s Day piece, but the market for articles about the fetishization of love is ironically oversaturated, and you panic to find another perspective
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Unleash Your Inner Angst through a Literary Alter Ego
Read more: Unleash Your Inner Angst through a Literary Alter EgoI have often considered it unfair that the bigwigs of the music scene can split themselves into two by virtue of a stage persona and still be taken seriously. On more than one occasion I have put on my extra-large hoop earrings and demanded that my peers call me Pheyoncé, and on more than one…
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Revolution in the Bed: In Defence of Sleep
Read more: Revolution in the Bed: In Defence of SleepMeet the white-crowned sparrow. Although it might look like any regular North American bird (albeit very cute and fluffy), the zonotrichia leucophrys has a distinguishing factor that sets it apart from our Dutch mus: its ability to stay awake for seven days during its migration. Over the past few years, various American universities and research…
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On Intellectual Curiosity and the Online Zeitgeist
Read more: On Intellectual Curiosity and the Online ZeitgeistIn an ambitious attempt to respond to Yentl’s article on Generation Wuss, I’ve come to the conclusion that this characterisation of my generation is actually a confronting, but accurate term for the post-postmodern generation that seems to have it all, desire it all, know it all. We flaunt our lives by underlining the insignificant, taking…
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In Defense of Young Adult
Read more: In Defense of Young AdultNext to my time as a student of English literature and final editor at Writer’s Block, I spend a lot of my time running a book review blog – or more specifically, running a book review blog that is mainly focused on young adult fiction. Usually, when I mention this to people, they give me…
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