Must-reads for Women's History MonthAgatha Patten### Beloved ### The house at 124 Bluestone Road is haunted. Everyone in the bleak, post-Civil War Cincinnati, Ohio of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” knows it, and all but a select few avoid it. The ghost of an infant rages...
Unofficial holiday moviesAgatha Patten# ### The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder Winter on the East Coast is cold, dark, and long, and stepping out of the biting cold into the warmth of one’s home is a relief like no other. Some though, like the lead...
“Martyr!”: a thoughtful reflection on humanityAgatha PattenCyrus Shams is waiting for a miracle. This is, at its core, the driving force behind Kaveh Akbar’s 2024 debut novel “Martyr!,” which opens with a flickering lightbulb in Cyrus’ bedroom. He interprets it as a message...
Classic horror movies to add to your Halloween watchlistAgatha Patten**NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) directed by F.W. Murnau** Blood, coffins, and bats: nothing says Halloween quite like vampires, and no film has portrayed the vampire quite like F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu: A...
