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Twenty-First Century Poe: Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher

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Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher should be a model of next-level literary adaptation. Rather than just using a particular text as the basis for the narrative, it weaves together quotes, characters and situations taken from Poe’s writings generally to elucidate a larger story. The story it tells, moreover—the fall of the… Continue reading Twenty-First Century Poe: Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher

The Crown, Diana and the history problem

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One of the loose themes of this blog is how fiction often fails to mediate reality, and so I’m going to write about the last season of The Crown, specifically the representation of the events leading to Diana’s death. My interest in the Royal Family is limited, but my interest in interpretation is real, and… Continue reading The Crown, Diana and the history problem