Girls: "It's a Shame About Ray"
Shame and Her Sisters
February 5th, 2013
“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
Girls: "One Man's Trash"
Grace Notes
February 11th, 2013
Girls: "Video Games"
This was never supposed to be a sexcapade
February 26th, 2013
Girls: "On All Fours"
Shit Together, or The Coming of Natalia
March 12th, 2013
Exile in Girlville: Sex and Sheila Heti
On 'How Should a Person Be?' and the explicit attention to female desire in recent novels, films, and shows
September 27th, 2012
The Memory Hole Riot and Rodney King
Rest in Peace, Rodney.
July 2nd, 2012
Mythmaking in Dawson City: A Nepali Searches for Canadianness
Falling under the strange spell of a Canadian tradition.
September 7th, 2012
Around the Table
These unanticipated truffles hiding deep in the gratin dauphinois of Gopnik's larger story remind us that food permeates every facet of our lives.
November 3rd, 2011
Remembering Maurice Sendak
May 10th, 2012
Hart Crane in Cleveland
On the legendary American modernist poet.
September 29th, 2012
A Scandal in Paradise: On “Top of the Lake”
'Twin Peaks,' 'The Killing," lost girls, and the female detective story
April 6th, 2013
Natalie Diaz, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
A Grosser Power: A Contrarian Look at The Hunger Games
The only way The Hunger Games works as art is if it shows ordinary people being entertained by death. Then it forces the audience to look at itself.
May 8th, 2012
Erika and Envy
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
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