Adam Joyce

Adam Joyce is a Duke Divinity graduate who lives and works in Chicago. Allergic to lists of hobbies and areas of ideological interest, he included none. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://

A Note from Our Editor

Oct 2, 2015 2 min read

The Curator is where I started. I wrote my first essay for The Curator almost three years ago. This was the first time I had written something other than a school paper, the

On <i>Advantageous</i>

Jul 28, 2015 4 min read Film & Television

Many of the standard traits of a dystopian vision are in Jennifer Phang’s Advantageous. Set in a future, unnamed megacity, water is scarce, surveillance and shadowy corporations are plentiful, and terrorists intermittently

Guy In Your MFA

May 13, 2015 8 min read Humanity Literature

One pretentious, mansplaining, literary tweet at a time, Guy In Your MFA [https://twitter.com/guyinyourmfa] has become an internet phenomenon. Run by Dana Schwartz [http://www.danaschwartzdotcom.com/], since its inception last

Noteworthy: On <i>Selma</i>

Jan 20, 2015 1 min read

As I’m sure you remember, yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The domestication of memory that comes with an official holiday is sometimes startling. Certain communities boil a life down to

The Discovery Itself Calls forth Further Quests

Dec 12, 2014 8 min read Humanity

“Around the throne of God, where all the angels read perfectly, there are no critics—there is no need for them.” –Randall Jarrell American culture tends to harbor little love for the critic.