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All content by Isabela Morales
Tudor thriller captivates

Tudor thriller captivates

Isabela Morales January 31, 2012

Everyone knows the story of Henry VIII and his parade of headless wives, but last weekend, I tried to inject some new life into the old tale by filming “Reformation! The Musical” for Campus MovieFest....

‘Ender’s Game’ a classic

Isabela Morales November 29, 2011

Book lovers would be hard-pressed to find anything more perennially popular with science fiction/fantasy authors than dystopian governments doing horrible things to young children. Most recently, that...

Book explores limits of mind

Isabela Morales November 15, 2011

Put away your half-started manuscripts and tragic hopes, creative writing minors. In an economy like ours, your chances of publication are bleak - unless, that is, you have unlimited access to a mind-enhancing...

The Gormenghast Series

The Gormenghast Series

Isabela Morales November 1, 2011

Four years in Tuscaloosa, and I'm beginning to despair that I am the only person on campus who has read Mervyn Peake's “Gormenghast” series. I told myself last spring that if I got that Lifestyles...

E-book stands out among its counterparts

E-book stands out among its counterparts

Isabela Morales October 11, 2011

Edwin Windsor is not a super villain. True, he has the perfect name for it, as well as the additional prerequisites of extraordinary wealth, cold hyper-rationality, impeccable taste in suits, a flawless...

The Magicians is the anti-Harry Potter

The Magicians is the anti-Harry Potter

Isabela Morales September 6, 2011

In this bleak and empty wasteland of the post-Harry Potter world we live in, it’s inevitable that any book about twenty-somethings at a school for magic will come under the closest scrutiny. That would...

One throne to rule them all

One throne to rule them all

Isabela Morales July 20, 2011

This month, TIME magazine christened novelist George R. R. Martin, author of the epic fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the “American Tolkien for a jaded age.” Possibly, it’s the two Rs...

Reading for the end of days

Isabela Morales June 15, 2011

There’s nothing fun about the end of the world. When I wasn’t teleported up to the pearly gates on May 21, I nearly freaked out realizing that I did, after all, need to study for my GRE on the 27th....

Ayn Rand wrote science fiction?

Isabela Morales June 8, 2011

Ayn Rand’s name was everywhere a couple years ago, when Tea Partiers started brandishing “Who is John Galt?” signs to protest increasing government intervention in the economy (and various other...