Year of the Month: Persia on SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER: The Album
The opening notes of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack have a steady, driving, tempo, the…
Year of the Month: Moses Supposes Erroneously by Persia
Famously, only two original songs were written for Singin’ in the Rain, both of them…
Marvelous Fashion: An Intersectional Femivision Article by Persia
Marvel recently unveiled the X-version of New York’s famous Met Gala: The Hellfire Gala, a…
Intimacy and WandaVision, or Where Did All the Sex Go?: An Intersectional Femivision Article by Persia
There have been a lot of thinkpieces written in the past few years about the…
But It’s Mine: Persia on Ownership and Control in the World of FARGO
One of the most famous lines in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning Fargo comes close to…
Year of the Month: Persia on BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
Parenting is terrifying. The author Philip Baruth once described dropping your young child off at…
Year of the Month: Persia on The Chattanooga Choo Choo
Before America had car culture, it had the train. Southern states blocked railway expansion until…
The Halloween Canon: Persia on “Ghostbusters”
There’s something of a known canon of Christmas songs. Most of them are jazz-influenced standards…
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Persia on DUNE
Frank Herbert’s novel Dune is a sprawling epic, crossing planets and decades and centering on…
YOJIMBO: A Movie in Two Worlds by Persia
One man approaches ten, as dust blows dramatically. The two opponents—one ronin, one criminal gang—step…