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Becoming Molly Grue: How I Found an Unlikely Millennial Icon in <i>The Last Unicorn</i>

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The Unicorn and Molly Grue in a scene from The Last Unicorn
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The Last Unicorn

Becoming Molly Grue: How I Found an Unlikely Millennial Icon in The Last Unicorn

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Close Reads

Gandalf and the Search for One’s True Name

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Most Iconic Books

On Selecting the Top Ten Genre Books of the First Quarter of the Century

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Photo of a dilapidated single story wooden house with a stone chimney
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Horror

The Horrors of a Starter Home

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Painting of a woman sitting at a hearth, holding a sleeping child on her lap
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motherhood

Motherhood: A Fairy Tale

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Brandon Sanderson

On the Profound Importance of Ordinary Characters: Rejoicing in Brandon Sanderson’s Tress

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Dawn Wiener dances to the music in Welcome to the Dollhouse.
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Social issues

Contemplating the Past and the Future With Welcome to the Dollhouse and Eighth Grade

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Illustration of Vash and Wolfwood in a panel from the Trigun Maximum manga
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storytelling

A Blank Ticket: How Trigun Taught Me the Importance of Storytelling and Love

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Artist's conception of multiple Earth-like planets
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LGBTQ

Many Worlds and the Queer Imaginary

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Oppenheimer

A Grand Unified Theory of Oppenheimer and Art That Speaks the Unspeakable

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Alien

“Not Much Choice”: Disability and Monstrosity in the Alien Franchise 

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Fairy Tales

Mirror, Mirror in the Ward

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