LARB
Los Angeles Review of Books
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
“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 MissionEmpire and the Mau Mau: A Story of Colonialism and Counter-InsurgencyFDR: Good for the Jews?Scientology: The Mystery SandwichFinding Words For What Is Horrible: Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives"Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"Untied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green see all reviews »
ESSAYS
ESSAYS
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 CaliforniaRagged But Right: Wayne White on George JonesIn Memory of Carmine Infantino (1925–2013) see all essays »
INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEWS
[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"The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David ShieldsThe Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie see all interviews »
Contributors Authors Genres Events About LARB

Dear Television

Dear Television is Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, Lili Loofbourow, and Phillip Maciak. They write epistolary criticism about TV. This season, they're corresponding about HBO's Girls.

Dear Television's Articles on LARB

  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 3, Post 2
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 1, Post 1
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 1, Post 2
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 1, Post 3
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 2, Post 1
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 2, Post 2
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 2, Post 3
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 3, Post 1
  • Dear TV: 'New Girl' and 'The Mindy Project'; Week 3, Post 3
  • New Girl: "Models"
  • New Girl and The Mindy Project: The Sitcom Special
  • New Girl & The Mindy Project: The Gender Games
  • New Girl & The Mindy Project: Thanksgiving Special
  • New Girl & The Mindy Project: Ep. 9 "Eggs" / Ep. 7 "Teen Patient"
  • New Girl & The Mindy Project: Ep. 10 "Bathtub" / Ep. 8 "Two to One"
  • Girls: "It's About Time"
  • Girls: "I Get Ideas"
  • Girls: "Bad Friend"
  • Girls: "It's a Shame About Ray"
  • Girls: "One Man's Trash"
  • Girls: "Boys"
  • Girls: "Video Games"
  • Girls: "It's Back"
  • Girls: "On All Fours"
  • Girls: "Together"

Interviews

  • History of the Present

Media

    Featured Essay

    “Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State” By Antal Neville

    Video

    RACHEL KUSHNER on her latest novel THE FLAMETHROWERS

    Audio

    Podcast #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"

    LARB on Twitter

    Follow @LAReviewofBooks

       

    Books

    Rontel
    by Sam Pink

    Like A Virgin
    by Aarathi Prasad

    Emily Dickinson in Love
    by John Evangelist Walsh

    Authors

    Sandra Cisneros

    ... More

    Mike Davis

    ... More

    Jayne Cortez

    ... More

    Genres

    Literary Fiction

    "Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

    97 total reviews
    Comics

    "All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

    23 total reviews
    Television

    "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

    0 total reviews
    DonationsBecome a Member Today
    American Dream Machine
    by Matthew Specktor

    The Barbarian Nurseries
    by Hector Tobar

    A Short History of Nuclear Folly
    by Rudolph Herzog

    Go to Books Archive
    Jon Wiener

    ... More

    Charles Yu

    ... More

    Pico Iyer

    ... More

    Go to Authors Archive
    Nonfiction

    "There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

    209 total reviews
    Film

    "There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

    27 total reviews
    Music

    "I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
    ... More

    40 total reviews
    Go to Genres Archive
    © 2013 Los Angeles Review of Books | All Rights Reserved | Donate | Contact Us