In the Year of the Dragon: China’s 2012
A look back at the year, with an eye toward global domination by 2030
January 3rd, 2013“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
Enchantment Dispelled: On Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit'
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
Let Us Not to Our Readers Condescend
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012
Between The Red Lines: An American Writer in China
Creativity and its consequences in China
December 30th, 2012
In the Neighborhood: Tom Waits
Tom Waits's Los Angeles
December 29th, 2012
Obesity as Metaphor
Four new novels aim to constitute a literature of physicality
December 27th, 2012
Victor Hugo Sings Again: On 'Les Misérables'
'Les Misérables' — of the zeitgeist since 1862
December 25th, 2012
Oscar and “Les Miz”
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical
December 25th, 2012
The Ballad Continues: On Nan Goldin
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
December 23rd, 2012
What Happens When You Wait
How to make sense of such unspeakable loss?
December 21st, 2012
Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, Twenty Years On
On the thriving, New York-based small press
December 20th, 2012
Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot
On 'Hitchcock' and the enduring mysteries of 'Psycho'
December 20th, 2012
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
Second books of poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
December 15th, 2012
Film History: Columnists and Historians Assess Spielberg’s "Lincoln"
This story of emancipation is woefully incomplete. How could it be otherwise?
December 14th, 2012
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