Articles by Rhian Sasseen
May 14, 2013
Whodunnit 0
And then there was you: the Oxford English Dictionary is soliciting public help in tracking down “a mysterious, possibly pornographic, 19th-century book from which a number of its quotations are derived.”
May 14, 2013
This Side of Criticism 0
F. Scott Fitzgerald called himself “a moralist at heart,” which might be why Kathryn Schulz finds The Great Gatsby to be “aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent.”
May 14, 2013
Head in a Book 0
Pen, paper, and a brain scan: the newest trend in literary criticism might be “neurohumanities.”
May 14, 2013
In The Kitchen 0
What’s cooking? Just an interview with the author who’s ghostwritten seemingly every bestselling cookbook out there.
May 8, 2013
Orlando 0
“I have often thought that if I were ever a drag queen, and more specifically that if I were ever a drag queen who was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, I would play Virginia Woolf — or rather, Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf — in the Snatch Game episode when the contestants don their [...]
May 8, 2013
“The Threadbare Art of My Eye” 0
As Robert Lowell put it: “sometimes everything I write / with the threadbare art of my eye / seems a snapshot.” Poetry and photography.