Let Us Not to Our Readers Condescend
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
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
Nothing More American: On James M. Cain
On the noir master's place in American fiction's 'shadow pantheon'
December 10th, 2012
Revolution Now? The Family Romances of Post-Apocalyptic Media
2012 was a great year for the post-apocalypse.
December 10th, 2012
Independence Day: A Dispatch from Edinburgh
December 9th, 2012
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