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The feel-bad novel in every Hudson News
Looking back on Stieg Larsson’s "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
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Harrison Blackman
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November 2024
Screenwriting, hacked
On Sam Esmail's masterful pilot of MR. ROBOT
Nov 14
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Harrison Blackman
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October 2024
Frankenstein
Examining the novel's spooky glaciers
Oct 10
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Harrison Blackman
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September 2024
The Architecture of Disability
David Gissen on reconsidering what many take for granted in architecture
Sep 19
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Harrison Blackman
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Back to murder
Narrative Architecture #8: Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" and the campus suspense novel (spoilers)
Sep 12
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Harrison Blackman
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August 2024
Meet the "sustainable" gas station
The Helios House in Los Angeles, a relic of 2007 greenwashing
Aug 29
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Harrison Blackman
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The plague of Marseille (Part II)
The pandemic, and its mystery of transmission, "unfolded"
Aug 22
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Cautious optimism
Narrative Architecture #7: David Wallace-Wells’ "The Uninhabitable Earth" and communicating climate change effectively
Aug 15
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Harrison Blackman
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When 'show don't tell' is bad advice
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Aug 8
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Harrison Blackman
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Scorpionfish
Natalie Bakopoulos on her novel set in contemporary Greece
Aug 1
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Harrison Blackman
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July 2024
The plague of Marseille (Part I)
The 1720 pandemic that transformed France's second city
Jul 25
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Harrison Blackman
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A fishy story
Narrative Architecture #6: The many strange narrative choices of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"
Jul 18
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Harrison Blackman
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