Alexander Lumans

Feb 5, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Alexander Lumans

To begin again the story: Tawny had been unzipping Carson LaFell’s fly and preparing to fit her head between his stomach and the steering wheel when the big red fire engine came rising over the fogged curve of the earth. I saw it but couldn’t say anything. Survivors bury themselves. Carson’s eyes were closed when he let the car drift into the opposite lane and the fire engine folded up their Beamer 328i’s front end like the tinfoil of emptied Cough & Cold pill sheets.

Feb 5, 2024 | everand.com | Alexander Lumans

Photo by Cassi Josh / Unsplash To begin again the story: Tawny had been unzipping Carson LaFell’s fly and preparing to fit her head between his stomach and the steering wheel when the big red fire engine came rising over the fogged curve of the earth. I saw it but couldn’t say anything. Survivors bury themselves. Carson’s eyes were closed when he let the car drift into the opposite lane and the fire engine folded up their Beamer 328i’s front end like the tinfoil of emptied Cough & Cold pill sheets.

Jun 13, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Alexander Lumans

Ander Monson has watched the 1987 action movie Predator 146 times. The movie I’ve probably seen the most is The Muppets Christmas Carol (50 times?). I don’t yet know what my Muppets Christmas Carol viewings say about me. But as Monson writes in his new book, Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession: “We’re embedded in the things we watch.” Over the course of the book, Monson breaks down this iconic movie scene by scene, obsessing over as well as challenging it.

Jun 12, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Eleanor M. Johnson |Alexander Lumans

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) remains one of the greatest horror films of all time. It is also one of the most sociological. It uses horror to explore what we now call domestic violence in a serious and sustained way. More specifically, it addresses coercive control, a form of domestic violence that is notoriously difficult to identify, assess, and prosecute. It centers not just on coercive control but, very acutely, on one important subtype of coercive control, which is reproductive coercion.