Archive - Decisions and Revisions

I’m teaching two classes this summer!

sign-up info + a May update by the skin of my teeth

May 31 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

April 2026

Pretty girls and accessories to the crime

on “Drive My Car,” translations, and violence that transforms us + new short story publication

Apr 27 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

March 2026

‘Wuthering Heights’ and the weird intimacy of working for people

no, I have not watched the movie

Mar 25 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

February 2026

5 movies to break up to

happy valentine’s day <3 + updates from between two new years

Feb 14 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

January 2026

Did anyone actually watch ‘Materialists’?

On love, bullshit, checking boxes, and why you should watch “Materialists”

Jan 24 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

December 2025

Do you think Daedalus feared he might fall?

Thinking about “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” love, flying, the creative process, and fear at the brink

Dec 3, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

November 2025

‘12 Angry Men’ and the fiction of debate and justice

Thoughts on jury duty, racist screeds, the marketplace of ideas, and debate me bros

Nov 5, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

October 2025

On getting worse as a writer

Thoughts and fears from the process of writing an essay collection

Oct 18, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

September 2025

Ethan Hawke could fix me

On “First Reformed,” capitalism, despair, and being un/underemployed for one year

Sep 30, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

Introducing ‘Conflict Kino,’ a film podcast about the imperial periphery

A new project + brief thoughts from inside the imperial core

Sep 1, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

August 2025

EMMA. (2020) and what we really want from adaptations

I love this film. It is a terrible adaptation, but does that make it terrible film?

Aug 7, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

July 2025

Lolita and the invitations of untrustworthy men

On unreliable narrators, the heterosexuality of it all, and finding clarity in “Lolita”

Jul 21, 2025 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣