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Contemporaries Essays, For Speed and Creed: The Fast and Furious Franchise

“The streets we know best”: The Fast and The Furious’s imagined Los Angeles

Editor’s Note: The below piece has been constructed in StoryMaps — users can scroll through to see the piece in its entirety. Nichole Nomura is a PhD candidate in the…

Contemporaries Essays, For Speed and Creed: The Fast and Furious Franchise

Introduction to The Fast Saga

Long considered ludicrous, the Fast and Furious franchise (or The Fast Saga) does not concern itself with the laws of nature, the state, or narrative itself. Watching these films requires…

Contemporaries Essays, Gestures of Refusal

Contemporaries Essays, W(h)ither the Christian Right?

Bored As Hell, Contemporaries Essays

Ali Smith Now, Contemporaries Essays

Contemporaries Essays, Dark Academia

Contemporaries Essays, Lydia Davis

Contemporaries Essays, Gestures of Refusal

Breathing Lessons

“Things were not gentle, not ever, then.” “So you open your heart and it hurt. You stand up straight and hold your shoulders back to let your heart out, and…

Contemporaries Essays, Gestures of Refusal

We Should All Be Sisters

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again…