The Bachelor

Contemporaries Essays

Here for the Wrong Representation: The Misuse of Diversity in the Bachelor Franchise

11.03.23

Season Nineteen of The Bachelorette (2022) proved to be one of the most “dramatic seasons ever.” Deviating from the show’s typical format of having one bachelorette, this season featured two…

Disability Narratives in Bachelor Nation

11.03.23

There is an exception to every rule. When it comes to the portrayal of disability in The Bachelor franchise and its spin-offs, only exceptions, as in, people with disabilities who…

The Bachelor at 21: Our Final Rose

11.03.23

March of 2023 marked the twenty-first “birthday” of ABC’s hit show The Bachelor. Since its inception, the show has presented itself as helping young, wealthy, and conventionally attractive Americans find…

A Thank You Note

10.06.23

Dear John, I’ve been reading “Ten Things I Do Every Day” every day. “Now I don’t know anything anymore.” What does sacred, ordinary protocol have to do with knowing anything…

Mere Horizon: The Form of Desire in John Keene’s Poetics

10.06.23

I. “Dark to Themselves,” the eponymous poem of the sixth section of John Keene’s Punks, begins with a command, which also serves as an ars poetica:”Invent, experiment: chaos . ….

An Escaped Slave and a Good Person

10.06.23

One of the joys of encountering John Keene’s work is reading his many interviews. Out of respect for his interviewers and readers, time and again Keene finds ways to expand…

An Abstract Architecture: John Keene’s Counternarratives

10.06.23

“Long hours in the study of any text will reveal inner, unseen contours, an abstract architecture,” writes John Keene.1 But even long hours of studying the stories and novellas that…

Passagens Estranhas: Translating the Obscene with Hilda Hilst and John Keene

10.06.23

“Oh, how delicious and practical it is that people think us strange . . . ” — Hilda Hilst, Letters from a Seducer, translated by John Keene At the outset…

John Keene’s Keywording

10.06.23

*** “In the mark event, you enter your signature.” So begins Seismosis, John Keene’s 2006 book of poetry, published as a collaboration with the artist Christopher Stackhouse. The quoted line…

The Black Experimental Impulse: Returning to Seismosis

10.06.23

A student in my recent “Twenty-First Century African American Literature” seminar insisted, “We should stop using the phrase ‘Experimental Literature.’ All creative writing is an experiment.” This is true, but…

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