‘The Spirit Photographer’ Represents the Historically Marginalized
In Jon Michael Varese’s The Spirit Photographer, exposure and concealment interweave into an intricate tapestry of interconnected motivations and intentions.
Ruth Li
Ruth Li is an English teacher and is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson teaching fellowship. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A.T. from Brown University. She is the author of the novel Invisible Threads, which is published on iBooks and Kindle. Her essay, “Salzburg: The Sound of Music and Silence”, published in Go World Travel Magazine. Her work has appeared in the Wellesley Review, and has won awards including the Asian American Creative Writing Award, the Dickens Project Scholarship Essay Contest, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s “Shakespeares of Tomorrow” Youth Playwriting Contest.
Beauty and the Beast’s Retrospective Reimaging
Disney’s latest rendition of Beauty and the Beast misses a kaleidoscope of potentialities: to revise and ruminate, to subvert and distort, to complicate and transcend.
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’: Past and Present, Space and Time
Though pasts and futures are undone and redone in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by the end we are left where we began.