Olivia Rutigliano is a PhD candidate in the English department at Columbia University. She is the film critic at Lit Hub and the editor of Lit Hub’s “CrimeReads” vertical, and her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vulture, The Baffler, Lapham’s Quarterly, Public Books, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, and The Toast, on PBS Television, and elsewhere.

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Out from the Shadow of the Vampire: On Chris McKay’s “Renfield”

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Olivia Rutigliano is a PhD candidate in the English department at Columbia University. She is the film critic at Lit Hub and the editor of Lit Hub’s “CrimeReads” vertical, and her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vulture, The Baffler, Lapham’s Quarterly, Public Books, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, and The Toast, on PBS Television, and elsewhere.

Olivia Rutigliano

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Out from the Shadow of the Vampire: On Chris McKay’s “Renfield”