Articles by Emily Colette Wilkinson
January 4, 2011
Still I Rise 3
Maya Angelou reciting “Still I Rise“–in case you’re feeling be-Job-ed today and need of the consolation of literature or if you have doubts about the existence of true poetry in the present age. (Printed text of the poem is here.)
January 3, 2011
An Opium Eater, Reconsidered 0
At The Washington Post, Michael Dirda on the dissolute genius Thomas De Quincey (opium addict, original chronicler of addiction, master of the macabre, prolific C19th essayist).
December 31, 2010
2010 in Film: Girls With Grit 5
The year in film offered a critical mass of girls on fire: self-possessed, irrepressible young female characters played by self-possessed, irrepressible young female actors—girls, as Huck Finn would say, “just full of sand.”
December 28, 2010
Grit & Grace 0
At The New York Times, Stanley Fish on True Grit as “a truly religious movie” in its understanding of the Christian idea of grace.
December 18, 2010
A Year in Reading: Emily Colette Wilkinson 2
“The answer to all of your problems is on the next page.”
December 9, 2010
Bad Education: The Confessions of Ed Dante 1
At The Chronicle of Higher Education: A breathtakingly ballsy piece by an anonymous professional writer of academic papers — friend to non-native speakers, the rich and lazy, and the hopelessly dim. Whatever your professor wants, he delivers (for a fee, of course). This Ed Dante might remind you of Vitaly Borker, the charmingly unapologetic (and [...]
