YAC Hit List: Idiosyncrasy
March 5th, 2013
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune
Letters to the editor
March 4th, 2013
Anti-non-Semitism: An Investigation of the Shiksa
Who, or what, is the 'shiksa'?
March 3rd, 2013
Here Comes the Tidal Wave: On "Enlightened"
A love letter to the riskiest show on cable
February 28th, 2013
Girls: "Video Games"
This was never supposed to be a sexcapade
February 26th, 2013
Mission Accomplished: On "Zero Dark Thirty"
In defense of Kathryn Bigelow's Best Picture-nominated film
February 24th, 2013
Bringing Chaos to Order: On Kurt Vonnegut's Literary Remains
On Kurt Vonnegut's literary remains
February 24th, 2013
Outside the Zone: Searching for Sarai Sierra
On the killing of the 33-year-old amateur photographer
February 23rd, 2013
Nicholas Ray Couldn’t Go Home Again: On the DVD Release of His Final Film
February 21st, 2013
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
Letter from Madrid
Disquiet and decay in the Spanish capital
February 18th, 2013
Girls: "Boys"
Big Boys Don't Cry
February 18th, 2013
Levitated Mass Hysteria: Michael Heizer's LACMA Installation
On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013
Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition
February 14th, 2013
Genres
Comics
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Nonfiction
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Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More