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Whether of Not "Sinners" Wins the Oscar, Ryan Coogler’s Genre-Bending Film Signals a New Era for Original Cinema

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino
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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
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Erosive Forms and a Climate of Violence in the Work of Juan Rulfo: A Q&A with Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
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Coming Soon

The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora

by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Editor), Lan Duong (Editor), and 1 more
Apr 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Benjamin Griffin (Editor), and 6 more
May 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), and 6 more
May 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), and 7 more
May 2026

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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

by Edward William Kelting (Author)
Nov 2024
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Scripting Suicide in Japan

by Kirsten Cather (Author)
Oct 2024
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