Serial Killer: On "American Horror Story"
On Ryan Murphy's maximalist melodrama and the possibilities of 'anthology' TV
October 15th, 2012“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
Skylight Series, Ep. 3: Emma Straub
October 3rd, 2012
The Sum of Two Cubes (And the Uses of Literature)
An experimental essay on the potential of writing.
September 23rd, 2012
Some Variations on Mark Lanegan
The ghost of Kurt Cobain haunts the music of Mark Lanegan
September 16th, 2012
A Sport of Restraint
On the poetry of archery
July 28th, 2012
Sir Paul and Impending Sire-hood
John Lingan on Paul McCartney
July 27th, 2012
The Space Between the Lines Is Your Life
On neuroplasticity and narrative
July 15th, 2012
Sculpting in Time: Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky
On Geoff Dyer and Andrei Tarkovsky, 'cinema's great poet of stillness'
July 12th, 2012
Salvage Operations
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
Supreme Hubris: Theories of Judicial Activism
The inevitability of politics.
June 29th, 2012
Smothered: Part 3
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
June 24th, 2012
The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China
A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.
June 23rd, 2012
Smothered: Part 2
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
June 17th, 2012
Smothered: Part I
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
June 10th, 2012
Strawberries on Life Support
The alien can be found within us; for proof, we need look no further than the colonies of bacteria proliferating in the crook of the human elbow.
May 9th, 2012
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