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Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Lawrence Christon on The Big Screen by David Thomson
“Strangers on a Train: Film Americana”
January 6th, 2013
Eli Diner and Alex Kitnick on Ken Price Sculpture by Stephanie Barron
“Agreeable Objects: On Ken Price”
January 6th, 2013
Timothy Spangler on Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White
“Every Accountant Tells a Story”
January 6th, 2013
Alex Lichtenstein on Marikana by Peter Alexander, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope, Luke Sinwell and Bongani Xezwi
“Marikana, Part II: Looking For Answers to a South African Massacre”
January 4th, 2013
Erik Morse on Lesabéndio by Paul Scheerbart
“Outsider Theorist Paul Scheerbart”
January 2nd, 2013
Jeffery Atik on Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
“The Cliff and the Jubilee: On David Graeber's 'Debt'”
January 1st, 2013
Colin Fleming on Mrs. Ames by E.F. Benson
“The Re-readability of E.F. Benson”
December 27th, 2012
Sherryl Vint on Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias
“Don’t Let the Future Be Written For You”
December 27th, 2012
Michael Bourne on The Heart Broke In by
“Promiscuity Without Consequence: James Meek on an Immoral Majority”
December 22nd, 2012
Ian Scheffler on The Voice Is All by Joyce Johnson
“Speak, Jack: Joyce Johnson’s New Biography of Jack Kerouac”
December 21st, 2012
Srinivas Aravamudan, Julia Lupton and David Palumbo-Liu on Blow Up The Humanities by Toby Miller and Toby Miller
“The Academy In Peril: A Symposium”
December 21st, 2012Video
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