Through the Looking Glass

Gatsby, Winter Carnival, and Me

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011

Lonna Saunders

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."

Dale Chihuly: Alchemy in Glass

Darby Roach | Posted 05.25.2011

Darby Roach

I'm standing with Dale Chihuly in a large open, high ceilinged room called the hot shop. The reason for the name is immediately clear. Along one wall the furnaces glow orange.

Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature:

Posted 05.25.2011

Narrative Magazine: Since her novel "Them" won the National Book Award in 1969, Joyce Carol Oates has been a major force in contemporary American lett...

An Environmentalist's View of Alice in Wonderland

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Avital Binshtock

In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, those depicted as being fully themselves tend to convene or live outside, amid the vividly rendered trees, mushrooms, and wild things.

Alice in Wonderland: An Unnecessary Adaptation That's Merely Decent

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Remington

The problem with Tim Burton's Alice isn't that we already know the story, the problem is that it feels curiously lifeless.

The Most Important Moment From This Week's Lost

Rob Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Rob Cohen

How about the reveal of Jack as a father? Eh. Interesting, but not that important. And Jack was a pretty awkward dad. He talked to his son like he would talk to his therapist.

Cutting to the Chase

Robin Lakoff | Posted 11.17.2011

Robin Lakoff

It seems obvious that people create shortened forms to save time. And yet, most often, we don't save that much time and may run the risk of endangering intelligibility.