Sigh No More
Emily Starr KwilinskiShakespeare + literature + contemporary culture
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live
Last night, I was having a peaceful evening at home scrolling Substack Notes when I was confronted by this monstrosity.
Now, I want to put all my cards on the table here. I’m not a Didion expert by any means. I haven’t read any of her fic...
Women can be evil, too
Sabrina Carpenter at the O2 Arena in March 2025 (Raph_PH, Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)
On June 11, 2025, Sabrina Carpenter dropped the cover for her new album, Man’s Best Friend, and launched a thousand thinkpieces on Substack....
Why I love Luna Lovegood
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 27 June 2007 (Entertainment Pictures/Alamy)
I was going to start this piece in a different way, but yesterday, someone I knew...
“Hamnet” is a masterpiece—with a huge blind spot
Jessie Buckley in Hamnet (2025). BFA / Agata Grzybowska / Focus Features (Alamy)
It’s rare that I think a movie is better than the book. But in the case of Hamnet, new this week and based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name, I alm...
Shakespeare’s Othello and the seductive power of a simple story
Othello Relating His Adventures (copy after Douglas Cowper), 1879, oil on canvas by John Emery (1802–1893)
I wrote my dissertation on the destructive power of narrative lapse: what happens when we lose our sense of who we are in the story...
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Ph.D. in theology, the imagination, and the arts. Writing about narrative, Shakespeare, and culture. Managing editor @slantbooks.
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