From Ready Player One to Roseanne, popular culture in 2018 might be looked back on as “problematic,” to use a polite academic term, in its attempts to bottle and sell 1980s nostalgia. Conservative in both form and content ...

Vincent Haddad
Vincent Haddad is an assistant professor of English at Central State University. He is currently working on his first book, “Touch Me: Loneliness, Intimacy, and the Contemporary Bookish Novel,” for consideration by SUNY Press. His writing on literature and comics has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Perspectives, The Rambling, LA Review of Books, Post45, The Comparatist, ImageTexT, and Orbit.