Writing
Erick DuPree’s blog explores the intersections of anthropology, literature, and material culture to illuminate how identity, ritual, and meaning take shape across time and tradition. Blending scholarship with storytelling, these essays invite readers to engage critically and imaginatively with the cultural forces that shape both personal and collective experience.
Review of Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles by Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom’s Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles is a powerful final meditation on poetry’s ability to confront death and despair. Through Shakespeare, Milton, and Stevens, Bloom argues that great literature empowers the reader’s mind to resist mortality with imagination and meaning.
Forgiveness Is Not Owed: Thoughts On My Father’s Death
Explore the emotional journey of choosing self-preservation over societal expectations of forgiveness in this poignant reflection on a father's death and a queer individual's fight for healing and self-worth.