James Orbesen

I'm an adjunct lecturer at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. student of Literacy and Language at Cardinal Stritch University. I live next door to Milwaukee as a Chicago transplant. My writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, Jacobin, Guernica, PopMatters, several anthologies, and elsewhere.

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‘Christmas Days’ Celebrates a Different Spirit of the Holidays
Margaret Atwood’s ‘Angel Catbird’ Says Too Much
‘The Heavenly Table’ Is Both Timely and Timeless
In Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy,’ Data is Your God
The Double Tragedy of Losing of Darwyn Cooke
Fading Colors: The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming
The Women Who Took Us to the Moon: Nathalia Holt’s Rise of the Rocket Girls
The Batman v Superman We Deserve: Why Zack Snyder Used the Wrong Source Material
Why is Pop Culture Obsessed with Destroying Chicago?