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Trading Places: The Translation and Transformation of Culture in The J. Paul Getty Museum’s "Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia"Second Acts: A Second Look At Second Books of Poetry by Paula Bohince and David WojahnThe Relentless Cascade of Life: Urs Widmer’s Autobographical FictionsToward Incomparable Ways of Speaking: Gert Jonke’s Languages and LandscapesFueled by Sentences: The Uncanny Art of Karl Ove KnausgaardMatthew Dickman Keeps it Together: On "Mayakovsky’s Revolver"Justice “Lite”: What Everyone Should Know about the Military CommissionsJetsam on the Terminal Beach: M. John Harrison's "Empty Space"All Clear Ahead: Muriel Rukeyser’s "Savage Coast"The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of GodAnswers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British DebutsDelusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic ManualThe Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange's "Angel Baby" see all reviews »
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ESSAYS

The Night I Danced with LiberaceThe Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on FilmRecapturing the World with Karl Ove KnausgaardWhen Love Doesn’t Last: Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight" A Poem for President DroneYou’ve Got the Wrong Song: ABC's "Nashville" and Country Music FeminismSyria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then FadingCarousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-haIf the SAT Were a Key to All MythologyHollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn'tConversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of LifeHurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and GreeceMarx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing ConsumerUntucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"Dick Nixon, To Kick Around Evermore see all essays »
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Translating Mo Yan: An Interview with Howard Goldblatt[VIDEO] Denis Wood, "Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas" Dirty Wars: An Interview with Jeremy ScahillThe "Who, What, and Why" Behind Guantánamo: An Interview with Jess Bravin[VIDEO] Margaret Atwood, "Positron"PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin" see all interviews »
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Jonathan Penner interviews Jimmy McDonough

“Ball of Fire: An Interview with Jimmy McDonough”

June 24th, 2011
Scott Korb interviews Rosie Schaap

“Bar Service: An Interview with Rosie Schaap”

February 9th, 2013
Roxanne Naseem Rashedi interviews Porochista Khakpour

“Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour”

February 17th, 2013
Adam J. Fitzgerald interviews Geoffrey G. O'Brien

“Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien”

February 14th, 2011
Jessica Hoffmann interviews Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

“Buttons Are Not the Only Art: A Conversation between Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Jessica Hoffmann”

April 23rd, 2013
Rachel Hurn interviews Leanne Shapton

“The Booger in the Pool: An Interview with Leanne Shapton”

January 18th, 2013

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