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Posts published by “Tianna Spitz”

Atonement

It’s a sweltering summer day in England, 1935, and the teetering Tallis family drape themselves across their upper-class country house. Like dolls being perfectly positioned throughout the home, we meet the Tallis children—Leon, Celia, and Briony—from oldest to youngest as they linger between a misspent summer and a scandal that will alter their lives and scatter their bonds forever.

Kafka on the Shore: A modern mythology of fate

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is prolific in the art of intimate narration and a cast of dreamy, almost off-beat characters on the cusp of adulthood.

Race After Technology: The ghost in the machine is white

Bias is infused into the modern currency that drives daily and institutional structures: technology. As we pass off machine learning and AI as objective systems, the developers behind everything from phone apps to complex predictive algorithms carry biases that exist within our society.

Storytelling through the looking glass of genetics

As we look in the mirror and find our father’s eyes or our mother’s nose, what similarities persist through generations, and how do the unique ways we animate identical traits tell our story?

Station Eleven confronts the edge of humanity

“Survival is insufficient.” Station Eleven, Emily St. Mandel’s 2014 dystopian novel, followed by the HBO series released in 2021, is a case study on how people change, perpetuate, and internalize the art they love.