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248 Spring 2022

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George Kowalik

George Kowalik is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at King's College London, a short fiction writer, and a freelance culture writer. He is also Assistant Editor at Coastal Shelf. His recent and forthcoming publications include Avatar Review, Derailleur Press, Offscreen and Vague Visages, and in 2020 he was shortlisted for Ouen Press’ Short Story Competition.

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8 June 202225 July 2022

The politics of the multiverse: simultaneity and trauma in Everything Everywhere All at Once

George Kowalik

The multiverse can have deeper implications when the interests in self-conscious play and knotty conception are probed for a more consequential social commentary. While neither a flawless execution of the cinematic multiverse nor an exhaustive exploration of identity and inequality, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a productive example of this balance.

17 August 202114 September 2021

Where the grim chaos leads: Tao Lin’s Leave Society

George Kowalik

Lin’s fourth novel (and first for eight years) addresses health – physical, mental, the protagonist's, his parents' – in a historical moment where we must urgently rethink how we prioritise it, and in a cultural moment where our music, films, and books are motivated by a responsibility to talk about it with the volume turned up.

23 June 202127 July 2021

What life on Earth is for: animated films and the pandemic

George Kowalik

In most countries, new film releases have played out over the past year or so within the four walls of living rooms, on the small screens of television sets, laptop screens, or tablets. But how do we respond when the conditions of crisis are reflected back to us in those films?

20 April 202120 May 2021

Erasure at twenty

George Kowalik

Percival Everett’s career-defining novel Erasure turns twenty this year. Revisited in 2021, its hyper self-consciousness and metafictional acrobatics have a special resonance, chiming with a historical moment where hysteria and manipulation run rampant.