How to Repair Your Ornithopter

“My father was a master mechanic; I grew up with a screwdriver in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other.”*  – Frank Herbert | By Ryan Lee Price | In an era when character development and plot structure took a back seat to technological ideas and dystopian/utopian predictions, Frank Herbert deliberately suppressed … Read more

A Raisin in the Sun Premieres on Broadway

| By J. Robert Parks | A Raisin in the Sun was one of the most significant American plays of the twentieth century. Written by Lorraine Hansberry, it portrays a multigenerational, working-class Black family living in a cramped home in Chicago, Illinois, but dreaming of something more. It received its Broadway premiere 65 years ago … Read more

Victorian Novels and LGBTQ+ Subtext

Why homoromantic and homoerotic interpretations of classic literature are as critical as traditional readings. |By Brittany Pope, Gale Ambassador at the University of Wyoming | The Victorian period gave rise to many of today’s genres—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Bram Stoker’s Dracula became codifiers of detective and horror fiction. Then there are the … Read more