Miguel

Watch yakuza movies on July 5th. Yakuza Graveyard and Graveyard of Honor, Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike.

30.06.2025 20:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

here we go

25.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

25.06.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Using my custom domains to their fullest potential between this handle change and @paradoxnewsletter.com

24.06.2025 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Issue #385: Orthodox Mysteries, Unorthodox Subjects George Jackson meets film noir; Japanese 'orthodox' mystery novels use unconventional form to create texts for both solving and interpreting.

Caged (1950) and George Jackson are a productive combination: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-385-...

24.06.2025 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Issue #364: Narrative Traps and the Unconscious in Severance This week, writing about Severance and Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story

The world is enjoying Severance. You can read about it, the Freudian unconscious, and shounen manga in this week's issue of the newsletter: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-364-...

29.01.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Reacher is so awesome

24.01.2025 03:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Robert Eggers must be stopped

22.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Issue #354: Fights, Physical and Intellectual This week, I write about Mike Tyson's legacy, Joji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo, and the misunderstanding of what ails literary studies.

This past week I wrote about the plight of literary studies, bad faith scapegoating, and Mike Tyson www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-354-...

23.11.2024 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Issue #353: A Fritz Lang Double Feature Changed My Life Fritz Lang made two of the greatest movies of all time in Human Desire (1954) and The Big Heat (1953). Now, celebrating so-called "noirvember," I unleash my prodigious critical capacity to analyze the...

Haven't posted here since 2023, but there are some pretty compelling reasons to do so. The newsletter is still going strong: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-353-...

12.11.2024 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bluesky seems like it’s kinda poppin. Here’s another week’s newsletter: miguelrivera.substack.com/p/issue-294-... inside:
1) Jawan and SRK’s abs
2) Youth of Today live at the Rockpile 1986
3) Announcement that last 2 weeks of Kaiji writing will be followed by 2 more
4) Kamau Brathwaite

27.09.2023 13:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paradox Newsletter | Miguel | Substack 100+ subscribers. The best and worst in pop culture from the perspective of an academic. Click to read Paradox Newsletter, by Miguel, a Substack publication.

Finally I can promote my newsletter with links. Lots going on this week, including a brief evaluation of the American fast casual soft drink landscape: miguelrivera.substack.com/p/issue-289-...

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