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All Clear Ahead: Muriel Rukeyser’s "Savage Coast"The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of GodAnswers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British DebutsDelusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic ManualThe Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange's "Angel Baby"A Transformed Legal Profession Faces the Future: Barry A. Sanders on “The Lawyer Bubble”The World’s Bloodiest Civil WarTesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"Publishers on a MissionScientology: The Mystery Sandwich see all reviews »
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ESSAYS

Syria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then FadingCarousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-haIf the SAT Were a Key to All MythologyHollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn'tConversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of LifeHurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and GreeceMarx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing ConsumerUntucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the HammerLetter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist StateDick Nixon, To Kick Around EvermoreSingle Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned In California see all essays »
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INTERVIEWS

[VIDEO] Margaret Atwood, "Positron"PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa HadleyJust This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"PODCAST #27: Colin DickeyFifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives" see all interviews »
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Cullen Gallagher

Cullen Gallagher is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared in Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, Film Comment, and The Brooklyn Rail. A graduate of The New School in New York City, he is currently pursuing his M.A. in Cinema Studies at NYU.

Cullen Gallagher's Articles on LARB

  • The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
  • Hard Stuff
  • Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir
  • The Wile E. Coyote of Crime Fiction
  • Plunging into the Supernatural
  • Sharp Tongues
  • The Criminal Kind: Sara Gran
  • Mike Hammer is Back
  • The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir
  • The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
  • The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman
  • The Criminal Kind: Christa Faust
  • Hell, Hurt, Blood, and Rapture
  • Voyeuristic Pleasures
  • Noir Enough?
  • Occasional PI
  • Mysterious Thugs
  • Warlords and Tycoons
  • King of the Paperbacks
  • The Criminal Kind: Bardsley, Piccirilli, Woods
  • Dark, Darker, Darkest: New and Republished Crime

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