Book vs. Movie: Where the Crawdads Sing
By Isabella Mininni
A longstanding debate amongst lovers of literature and film is: What’s better, the movie or the book? To truly determine the superior form, each adaptation should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. In sticking true to these methods, I have read Delia Owen’s Where the Crawdads Sing as well as viewed the film.
By Carolina Beretta
I have noticed for some time now that anime—which was previously considered “niche” and “nerdy”—is breaking the seams of its original confinement and growing to be popular and admired by many.
A City of Stars: A La La Land Cabaret
By Maddy Mustin
A first-person perspective into what a lovely night of performance looks like through the creative lens of stream-of-consciousness writing.
Into the Gory World: A Critique of Attack on Titan
By Carolina Beretta
When we picture an apocalyptic world, creatures like zombies, aliens, vampires, and werewolves come to mind. We—usually—do not think 15-meter-tall irrational humanoid creatures lacking sex organs whose only goal in their existence is to eat humans. Yet, in the popular world of anime, ideas are boundless, and so, I find myself warped in the petrifying world of Attack on Titan, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama.
The Success of Shadow and Bone and the Future of Adaptations
By Amanda Muscente
Book to television and film adaptations are quite common but not all of them please their fans while drawing in new ones the way Shadow and Bone has done for two successful seasons. Why is that?