These days, it’s rare to find a family-friendly movie that is beautifully made, deeply vulnerable, and still genuinely funny, accessible, and adorable. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On manages to accomplish each of these tasks with a grace and sweet magnificence that breaks the boundaries of the mockumentary genre.

Daniel Defoe, most known for his “novels” Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, falls into a sort of liminal literary space that few other authors do; despite being fairly recognizable (Robinson Crusoe being a well-known book), not many readers have the time or energy to read what can be easily seen as the “antique” or “unintuitive” pieces that he produced. Additionally, his work falls outside of strict fiction or nonfiction labels makes it difficult to even categorize, much less understand, what Defoe stood for back in the early 1700s when he wrote. I offer that instead of reading the more recognizable novels he produced, readers in the 2020s should instead look to his 1722 book Journal of the Plague Year to see not only why classic literature matters, but how human nature in response to large-scale catastrophe is nothing more than a horrid, never-ending cycle.

THE BLACK WOMAN

The Black Woman is often imitated, but can never truly be duplicated. From the swaying of the hips, to the shape of the lips, to the very essence of the way she speaks. The Black Woman possesses a history of being robbed of her innocence at a tender age, her body is criticized for its shape and humiliated for its color, violated in every sense of the word.

With the release of the newest Netflix adaptation of Jeffery Dahmer’s story gaining so much circulation, many people wonder if the morbid story is worth their time. The series is a ten-part episodic journey through the life of Dahmer and those who were closest to him as he took part in his beyond nefarious deeds. The story told here, though highly gruesome, tells a tale that we can apply to our own time, especially with the thematic undertones presented. This watch is not meant for the faint of heart, but is, in my opinion, the best recent adaptation of the Dahmer story.  

Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon: Learning how to read the largest fantasy saga ever written

Between drama on the set of Don’t Worry Darling, the newest seasons of the hottest reality TV show, and the tally of how many tattoos (or brandings) Pete Davidson has recently gotten to track his famous lovers, in this day and age, we are constantly inundated with the hottest celebrity gossip. Why is this the culture every which way we turn, and why do we eat it up by the spoonful?

The base operations of the expedition were little more than a compound of standard box-shaped white Confederation-grade shelters, broken up here and there with other improvised shacks and tents made from resources found in the nearby area. The state of the bivouac didn’t surprise the Captain; she had seen others like it before. But those were expeditions that had been vacant, abandoned, and devoid of scientists. Nothing like here.

Gandy Dancer, the SUNY-wide literary journal, is looking for submissions for its Fall 2022 issue! For those that work either in their major or extracurriculars in the creative space, Gandy Dancer is not only a welcoming and open space for you to submit to—for those who are accepted, it is a perfect resume/portfolio builder.

Northanger Abbey was published together with Persuasion in a bundle in Dec. 1817, less than six months after Jane Austen died. While these were the last of Austen’s novels to reach publication, Persuasion was the last novel Austen wrote, while Northanger Abbey was actually her first. Originally known as Susan, the book was sold for only ten pounds in 1803 where it sat in purgatory until Austen’s brother bought it back from the company where Austen was able to continue to revise it and prepare it for publishing. 

A new trend has emerged in movies over the last few years, one that continues to grow both in popularity and nuance as new directors and crews take their swing at it: the musician biopic. As of 2018 the two major two major examples were Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman focusing on the band Queen and Elton John, respectively. Later this year, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will release, but before that popular director Baz Lurhman of The Great Gatsby (2013) fame has thrown his hat into the ring with Elvis, starring the titular yet controversial rock ‘n’ roll superstar of the mid-20th century. 

This article contains spoilers for all four seasons of Stranger Things

As season four of the hit show Stranger Things aired in late May of this year, the interesting phenomenon of how various mediums in popular culture are tethered together became more apparent than ever.

The Conjuring came out in Jul. of 2013 to positive critical and audience reception; as a result, the series continued in 2014 with the story of Anabelle the doll, an antagonist of sorts from the first film. Seeing Anabelle in theaters for the first time when I was 12 years old was amazing; I loved everything horror and The Conjuring amassed an even greater love for such stories.

The girls around Mia were giggling, already half changed into their gym clothes. A loud shriek of laughter pulled her gaze from the floor, and she looked around, giving a small smile. She wished she knew what they were laughing about. She always seemed to miss it.

Until now, the oldest novel I’ve written about for Lamron Lit Corner was Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein. As I approach a novel published nearly a full century before that in 1726, I ask myself—what has changed about the world of novels in the last three centuries? 

Well, simply, put, the answer is not too much.

It’s been four long years since JID’s last album. Since his 2018 album DiCaprio 2, we’ve seen the rise of YSL lean sippin’ trap through Lil Baby and Gunna. While the ATL has rebranded since its triplet flow era, JID has remained the Atlanta bar-slinger. With his fast flows and dark wormy beats, JID has perfected his sound through his Dreamville Label. The Forever Story, JID’s newest album, expands on his original sound and introduces a more introspective side of the artist.

Just a little less than a month ago, Taylor Swift took to Twitter to let her fans know that her tenth studio album, Midnights, would be arriving in only five weeks on Oct. 21, 2022. As some Swift fans have noted, 21 reversed is 12, a nod to the themes around time that Swift is aiming for in her newest era.

As Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits its third and fourth episodes, the characters and the world seem to be hitting a groove that will hopefully propel it forward. Plotlines are beginning to thicken and become more tangible, characters are becoming more three-dimensional, and the world continues to grow and expand in the same way the original books do as you read them.

While the genre of science fiction is generally believed to find its origins in 1818 with the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, its roots dig far deeper than the 19th century. But, instead of looking that far into the past, let’s instead look to the most recent evolution of the genre: modernism to postmodernism. This conversation, inevitably, will include Phillip K. Dick and his oft-called magnum opus, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.