Distance Remakes the Heart in Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’
Throughout Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez depicts love as an infectious disease. Must we quarantine from it?
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The “Luxurious Loneliness” of Anime Film ‘Perfect Blue’
In Satoshi Kon's 1997 masterpiece, Perfect Blue, former J-Pop idol Mima Kirigoe's crisis of identity echoes our current 'epidemic' of loneliness -- upsetting the boundary between private and public agency, the desire to hide and the compulsion to be seen.
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How Aaron Sorkin and U2 Can Soothe the Pandemic Mind
Like Aaron Sorkin, the veteran rock band U2 has been making ambitious, iconic art for decades—art that can be soaring but occasionally self-important. Sorkin and U2's work draws parallels in comfort and struggle.
Confinement and Escape: Emma Donoghue and E.L. Doctorow in Our Time of Self-Isolation
Emma Donoghue's Room and E.L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley define and confront life within limited space.
Some of One World’s Comfort Songs Are Off-Key
One World: Together at Home and what our choice of anthems says about how we cope with a crisis.
Matchbox Twenty: Aren’t We All a Little “Unwell” in the Time of Coronavirus?
Say what you will about Matchbox Twenty – I know I once did. But during this COVID-19 pandemic, we're all going "crazy" and feeling "a little unwell" in this time of isolation, and I'm turning to their music.