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"If there’s any illicit desire at work in Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” it’s the way the movie lusts after other movies."
Read our latest installment in our Adaptation Anxiety series!
"If there’s any illicit desire at work in Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” it’s the way the movie lusts after other movies."
Read our latest installment in our Adaptation Anxiety series!
Our Adaptation Anxiety series continues. In this latest installation, Maddy Trépanier traces a different source text for Emerald Fennell's adaption of the classic gothic novel.
"If there’s any illicit desire at work in Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” it’s the way the movie lusts after other movies."
Our Adaptation Anxiety series continues. In this latest installation, Maddy Trépanier traces a different source text for Emerald Fennell's adaption of the classic gothic novel.
"If there’s any illicit desire at work in Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” it’s the way the movie lusts after other movies."
do you know that you, too, can read CAPITAL with MTC this summer. no prior experience necessary, just a curiosity and willingness to read a long text slowly, together.
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It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.
It's Thursday, which means a new MTC essay! This week Sarah Hopkinson pens a studied and stunning review of Karen Solie's collection of poems, 'Wellwater.'
"...in Wellwater, there is no “Away” for waste, toxins, objects or even memories: what we try to abandon, someone else will have to inherit."
Sunday links to things for which clicking provides access and then allows you to read them: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/email/aa04a7...
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
Wonderful review of a performance based on Dürer’s Rhinoceros:
“the performance takes up puppetry as a dynamic and … a unique access for us to reimagine the objects with a diverse mode of liveliness, demanding that we rediscover the subjecthood of animals that we have long ignored and suppressed.”
Adaptation is everywhere! In 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. We ask not whet…
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Adaptation is everywhere! In 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. We ask not whet…
Adaptation is everywhere! In 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. We ask not whet…
Adaptation is everywhere! In 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. We ask not whet…
Read With Us: Below you will find our upcoming and ongoing reading series. If you’d like to lead a reading group for MTC, please get in touch with us at [email protected] MTc 2026 Big Book S…
“The eternal silences of these infinite spaces frightens me.” — Pascal, Pensées, 206. Karen Solie’s latest poetry collection Wellwater begins underground, in the invisible spaces where secrets, pa…
For MTC, Yiwen Wu reviews 'Rhynoceron,' presented at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in January 2026.
"...dramaturgically structured as two parts: the first half from the perspective of gawking gaze of human collectors and the second half from that of the animal, the rhinoceron."
At the very end of the play, as well as in history, the rhinoceros drowns in the sea on the boat ride to Europe. Tracing the events surrounding the arrival of a one-horned Indian rhinoceros to Rena…
