Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
bruce springsteen
The hospital where I visit my wife as she convalesces sits at the square corner of the town I grew up near, went to school in. When entering the city limits to go to school every morning, the hospital was the first sign that you had left the wildness of
The X-Files
"For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all... alone." — Jose Chung At the center of "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," the episode of television I have seen more than any other,
hannibal
At first blush, "The Gift," the fifth season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and "The Wrath of the Lamb," the series finale (for now) of Hannibal would seem to have little to do with each other, beyond the obvious — both conclude with the protagonist plunging