Category: 2023 Fall Issue

Lola Chamberlain Anyone who has taken a Knox literature class has probably sat through a discussion (or many) that never seemed to get off the ground because the class couldn’t stop talking about how problematic (racist, sexist, classist) the assigned text was. The women are objects! The people of color are construed as monstrous! The…

Jessica Whalen When I tell people about my love of Mary Shelley’s Mathilda, I usually get one of the same two responses. They either confuse it for Matilda by Roald Dahl, or they’re surprised to find out another Mary Shelley novel exists besides Frankenstein– which is understandable. Frankenstein has been massively influential and culturally iconic…