MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST The other day, one of my close friends asked me out of the blue, “Do you have a dream?” Of course, my first instinct was to look dramatically into the distance and say, “I ……
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Have you ever been hyper-aware of the gaze of another person? Maybe you’ve realized someone is staring at you from across the room and it makes you squirm. Or have you ever made prolonged eye…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST (To be read in your best English accent) ‘Twas but a fortnight past, I was honored to have witnessed a certain video from Servants of the Savior — perhaps you, too, had the pleasure of…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Maybe it was wrong of me to judge the movie by its cover, but the idea of a movie about Legos sounded more like a market ploy to drive sales than an attempt to tell…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST St. Valentine’s Day is upon us, folks, so what better time to talk about love in literature? The fact that love is possibly the most widespread and most-pondered theme in all of literature points to…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST “Let’s tell stories!” my brothers and I would cry before my mother put us to bed. As children, we loved when she would make up bedtime stories, usually with characters who had our names and…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST What does it mean to be a man? As songs from “Mulan” (or the PDP) run through your head, I want to discuss an article recently published by The Gauntlet, a start-up publication on campus…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I didn’t know I could love a novel about adulterers so much. Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina” is full of characters who are so realistic that you could go outside and meet them (if you…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER What superb work of literature includes a dangerous monster, a unique but outcasted girl and one of the most profound mantras of love the world has ever heard? I’m of course referring to “Lilo & Stitch,”…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST It’s a dark and stormy night. Thunder booms and lightning flashes across the sky, when suddenly – “It’s alive!” the scientist cries. The monstrous creature rises from the table, lumbers around the room and wanders…