Archive - Johanna Polus

Why Are We Sexing Up Literary Spinsters?

Or, the Rise of Fan Fiction and the Decline of Serious Reading

Jun 27 •

May 2025

Ok, Boomer! Generational Wealth and The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler's Novel Explores How and Why to Pass Down Money to the Young

May 16 •

February 2025

Bob Fosse Diagnosed Modernity

How a 70s Movie Musical Presaged the 21st Century

Feb 27 •

January 2025

Out With the Old

The Midlife Rite of Passage is Getting Rid of Stuff

Jan 18 •

December 2024

God and the Ambitious Artist

The Tension Between Faith and Ego

Dec 10, 2024 •

October 2024

Fanny Trollope Was Right About Us

An American Defends an Anti-American Screed

Oct 10, 2024 •

August 2024

On Demons and Monsters

And what East of Eden has to say about them.

Aug 4, 2024 •

June 2024

Cringe and the Fertility Crisis

What Happens When the Anxieties of Attraction Become Intolerable

Jun 19, 2024 •

April 2024

Godless Adaptations

The Case Against Stripping Christianity From the Classics

Apr 20, 2024 •

March 2024

My Mother's Dog

Lessons in Love, Courtesy of Dementia and a Cavalier King Charles

Mar 15, 2024 •

February 2024

The Internet Isn't Forever

How We're Being Rewired For Forgetting

Feb 5, 2024 •

January 2024

It's a Wonderful Memento Mori

Easter Eggs of Mortality in the Classic Movie

Jan 3, 2024 •

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