Nora Kenney Mittiga

Author Archive

  • Jul 29, 2026
    Last December, in a crystalline “polar vortex,” my husband and I drove to Florida after getting married in Ohio. As we drove along Interstate 75, we remarked on an...
  • Jul 8, 2026
    In the early 2010s, many of pop culture’s female heroines were known for a type of cool aloofness. Usually associated with an “alt” or “indie girl”...
  • Jun 30, 2026
    In a coming-of-age novel about a neglected, introspective girl, a train slinks across the floor of an icy glacial lake, having careened off its tracks into the deep water below. A...
  • May 21, 2026
    he Devil Wears Prada 2—a sequel to the Academy Award-nominated original from twenty years ago—is a fun Hollywood spectacle, reuniting heavy hitters from the original cast...
  • Mar 2, 2026
    Movies these days tend to overexplain themselves, telling viewers how to feel while flattening characters into lazy, uncomplicated archetypes. Train Dreams—directed by...
  • Feb 19, 2026
    Thirty years ago this month, David Foster Wallace published Infinite Jest, a strangely tender novel despite almost seeming to troll the reader with its sheer length and...
  • Jan 27, 2026
    Menstrual cycles are not an illness, and medicating them as if they are—suppressing the body's natural hormonal rhythms—clashes with what was once left-wing skepticism of...