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…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Sing to me, muse, of the man of twists and turns – how does an orphan, scholar, $10 Founding Father become so much of a phenomenon that a hit Broadway musical about his life is…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I don’t know about you, but superhero movies are my lifeblood. Every time Marvel comes out with a new film, I run to the theater to get my fix of action, adventure and that obnoxious…
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Suzanne Collins chose internal monologue. Shakespeare chose dialogue. Tolkien chose narrative. Emily Bronte chose description of landscape. All writers have a specialty by which they choose to tell a story. Yet, none wcan escape the…
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST The power of a well-told story cannot be underestimated. Even the driest-eyed movie watchers can be coaxed to tears by a work such as “The Passion” or “Schindler’s List.” The beauty of such stories leads…
