J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Mona Simpson (Glenn Close) appears as a hallucination in The Simpsons episode "The Man Who Flew Too Much." Image via Fox There is no shortage of Homer-centered episodes in The Simpsons, classics where ...

This kind of flag-waving is no longer fashionable, or even comfortable, in an art world striving to be global and in a country where arguments over what counts as “real America” become nastier by the ...

Spoilers ahead for The OA Season 2. The OA is really taking Homer's name literally, because now, he's had to embark on a long Odyssey to find his way back to Prairie. When the show picks up, we learn ...

The Simpsons is arguably one of the greatest animated TV shows of all time, and they’ve tackled so many topics over the years. And, as somebody who thankfully grew up watching The Simpsons, I feel ...

Homer is often called the—or at least a—“father of Western civilization.” This is not a new idea. To take a prominent example, already before the end of the first century A.D., the Roman rhetorician ...

Back in February, Senator Ted Cruz opined with his trademark lack of self-awareness: “The Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson and Republicans are happily the party of Homer, Bart, Maggie, and ...

In Homosassa, a tiny town along Florida’s Gulf Coast, the famed artist created some of his most luminous watercolors, capturing an area rich in aquatic life. By Geraldine Fabrikant When Winslow Homer ...

The Western tradition has never been more appealingly portrayed than in Rembrandt’s 1653 painting “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.” Whether you stand in front of it at the Metropolitan Museum or look ...