Culture
When "Saturn Returns": Notes on Youth, Netflix, and the Passing Moment
Late 20s, early 30s, a time of reckoning for Gen Z.
Kati Langille
Kati Langille is a writer with articles published in the University of Chicago Maroon, www.readunwritten.com, and The Art Newsletter. She attends the University of Chicago where she majors in English Literature with a minor in Religious Studies.
Literature
Post-Modern Satire Gets Angst. It Invented Angst.
Sometimes, meaning seems meaningless. When there is neither Cat nor Cradle to be seen, how can we trust the prejudices of a taught but false reality? Kurt Vonnegut asks this question in his expansive religious and scientific satire novel, Cat's Cradle.
Literature
To Be or Not To Be
Is still the open ended question in this day of modern online discourse and never ending opinions, but do we need to answer it differently and change our mode of conversing with others?
Literature
We are Primitive Man
Rachel Kushner's novel Creation Lake shows us that liberal activists want the same things that humans have always wanted, and conservative forces just want to be left alone to do as they please. The differences in political extremes often lead to the same end points.
Culture
Girl, So Detective
It is so confusing to be a girl raised on Nancy Drew, Miss. Marple, and J.B. Fletcher when you realize how scrutinized these characters are today, considering their historical context.
Weekly Newsletter
The Cartoon That Predicted 2025
Nearly 100 years later, she remains louder, bolder, and stranger than ever. Plus: Grizzly Man, Art Basel, UT Austin Research, and more.
Culture
Culture is a Cult
Mona Awad's "Rouge" shows us the way in which culture becomes a cult which we have to choose to escape for our own sanity.
Literature
The Loneliness Epidemic Isn’t Just Modern. One Novel Proved It Decades Ago.
Back in the day, loneliness was not an epidemic. It was a way of life. Now, we are lonelier than ever, but do we already have the cure?