We All Know About Barrow: On "Downton Abbey"
Thomas Barrow and TV's trouble with 'the Gay Character'
April 16th, 2013“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reading in Prison: 'The Art of War' as Survival Guide
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In Hell, "We Shall Be Free": On "Breaking Bad"
Walter White's Rebellion
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Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, W.G. Sebald, and the Alienated Cosmopolitan
The evolution of the flâneur
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The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
China Future
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James Deen vs. the Nebbishes
October 21st, 2012
Killing Our Monsters: On Stephen King’s Magic
All King's novels, even the stinkers, have resonance.
July 17th, 2012
The Exegete
Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
February 24th, 2012
Salvage Operations
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
Letter From Oakland
It was decided, a species of what we might call a “postmodern general strike” will come lumbering out of the revolutionary textbook.
November 12th, 2011
Kuan Tao-sheng, Valentine
February 13th, 2013
Be Thou the Voice
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
September 8th, 2011
What Happens When You Wait
How to make sense of such unspeakable loss?
December 21st, 2012
Where the Action Was
This was the canonical American art for which the claim "you had to be there" seemed strongest ...
May 19th, 2011
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