Sean Guynes

Sean Guynes is a reviewer, critic, and editor who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is co-editor of Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017) and Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (2020), and editor of SFRA Review.

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When Sexually Frustrated Angry White Men (Mis)Read the Classics

Sean Guynes

/ 9 November 2018

Donna Zuckerberg's Not All Dead White Men is a powerful study of the ways the alt-right distorts the understanding of ancient Greek and Roman literature to serve hateful interests today.

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The Cursed Frontier: Ismail Kadare’s Theory of the State

Sean Guynes

/ 7 August 2018

Kadare's The Traitor's Niche suggests that to belong to the state is to either be a part of the machineries of power or in rebellion against them—and occasionally both.

Sean Guynes

When Sexually Frustrated Angry White Men (Mis)Read the Classics

The Cursed Frontier: Ismail Kadare’s Theory of the State

Strange Bedfellows? Rap and the Political Right

‘Sugar’ Is an Intoxicating Celebration of Classic Hollywood

25 Years of Tom Waits’ ‘Mule Variations’

‘Dirty Dancing’ in Pre-Roe v. Wade America

The 100 Best Alternative Songs of the 1980s

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