Ella Schmidt

Says Eliot

Men stumble out of bars into Prufrock's disturbed universe

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

The Self-Made Man

Creation and procreation, the man of the hour and his wife

Jul 15 • 

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June 2025

Modern Wife

Richard Ellmann’s 1959 biography claimed readers were “still learning how to be Joyce’s contemporaries.” Today, Molly Bloom is proof of that.

Jun 18 • 

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Pictures of Girls

I moved quickly, afraid of getting old

Jun 8 • 

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May 2025

Difficulties Everywhere: On Noah Kumin's 'Stop All the Clocks'

While the railroad shortened the distance between cities, humans remained every bit as far from God.

May 30 • 

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She Wants Me

I'd like to be happy, instead of here

May 10 • 

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April 2025

Last Elegy

On dead love and high school football

Apr 14 • 

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18

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Girl Dad

When my lips move, reading, his move too

Apr 3 • 

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March 2025

"We’re Still Nice Girls"

Star-fucking, self-loathing and ‘The Groupies’

Mar 22 • 

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34

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The Age of Our Discontent

On Matthew Gasda’s ‘The Sleepers’

Mar 9 • 

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24

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Strange Young Girls

Art and marriage for the obvious muse

Mar 7 • 

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February 2025

Women in Love

D.H. Lawrence and the bodies of a disembodied generation

Feb 16 • 

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