J. K. Lavin, "Etherea # 2."

Tropic of Barney

Loren Glass - September 29, 2016

Loren Glass on the autobiography of Barney Rosset, legendary publisher of Grove Press....

NONFICTION

Edward Albee: Fragments

Ian MacAllister-McDonald - September 29, 2016

A remembrance of the late, great playwright Edward Albee....

NONFICTION, PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Benjamin Tells a Story…

Peter Fenves - September 29, 2016

Peter Fenves looks at Verso's release of Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness."...

HISTORY

First Food, Then Morality

Gavin Jacobson - September 28, 2016

Germany after WWII: first food, the saying went, then morality....

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HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Tropic of Barney

Loren Glass

Loren Glass on the autobiography of Barney Rosset, legendary publisher of Grove Press....

NONFICTION

Edward Albee: Fragments

Ian MacAllister-McDonald - September 29, 2016

A remembrance of the late, great playwright Edward Albee....

NONFICTION, PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Benjamin Tells a Story…

Peter Fenves - September 29, 2016

Peter Fenves looks at Verso's release of Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness."...

HISTORY

First Food, Then Morality

Gavin Jacobson

Germany after WWII: first food, the saying went, then morality....

HISTORY, CULTURAL STUDIES

Oliver and Sarah: The Story of the Winchesters

Colin Dickey - September 28, 2016

A history of the Winchester family and fortune....

FICTION, SF

D. G. Compton, Authenticity, and Privacy

Anna E. Clark - September 28, 2016

Anna Clark on D.G. Compton’s "The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe."...

POLITICS & ECONOMICS, PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

The Art of the Possible: Peter Frase’s “Four Futures”

Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy on Peter Frase’s work of science fiction social theory “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism”...

MUSIC

Townes Van Zandt, 9/11, and the Wages of Prophecy

Paul Cullum - September 27, 2016

Paul Cullum interprets the prophetic vision of Townes Van Zandt....

FICTION

War As Hell Brought Home: An Interview with Odie Lindsey

Robert Rea - September 27, 2016

Robert Rea talks to Odie Lindsey about his new collection of short stories, "We Come to Our Senses."...

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Dancing with Words

A. M. Kaempf

A. M. Kaempf strolls between the lines with Robert Walser....

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

On Alter Egos and Facing Monsters: Jonathan Alexander Interviews Francesca Lia Block

Jonathan Alexander - September 26, 2016

An interview with author Francesca Lia Block....

AROUND THE WORLD, MEMOIR & ESSAY

The Telephone Exchange

Jacqueline Feldman - September 26, 2016

Jacqueline Feldman revisits Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” while attending a conference in Barcelona....

AROUND THE WORLD, POLITICS & ECONOMICS, LITERARY CRITICISM

Serious Literature: On Hua Hsu’s “A Floating Chinaman”

Min Hyoung Song

Min Hyoung Song explores the legacies of Pearl S. Buck and H. T. Tsiang in Hua Hsu's "A Floating Chinaman."...

AROUND THE WORLD, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, HISTORY

Russian Invasion: On Dan Ackerman’s “The Tetris Effect”

Ian Bogost - September 25, 2016

Ian Bogost looks at the history of Tetris in Dan Ackerman's "The Tetris Effect."...

FILM, POLITICS & ECONOMICS

“The Battle of Algiers” at 50: From 1960s Radicalism to the Classrooms of West Point

Madeleine Dobie - September 25, 2016

Madeleine Dobie considers what it is that draws national security agencies to "The Battle of Algiers."...

FICTION

More at Stake Here Than Beauty: An Interview with Yaa Gyasi

Leah Mirakhor

Leah Mirakhor talks to Yaa Gyasi about her new novel, "Homegoing."...

LAW, POLITICS & ECONOMICS

Turn Left or Get Shot

Priyanka Kumar - September 24, 2016

Priyanka Kumar on Elizabeth Hinton's "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime."...

POLITICS & ECONOMICS, HISTORY

Picking up the Pieces

Stephen E. Hanson - September 24, 2016

Stephen E. Hanson on Aviezer Tucker's "The Legacies of Totalitarianism."...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?

Sara Lippincott

Sara Lippincott on Sean Carroll's "The Big Picture."...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Science and the Big Picture: Do Any Mysteries Remain?

Lee Smolin - September 23, 2016

Lee Smolin on Sean Carroll's "The Big Picture."...

FICTION

Labeling the Russian Immigrant: Irina Reyn’s “The Imperial Wife”

Sasha Senderovich - September 23, 2016

Sasha Senderovich on Irina Reyn's "The Imperial Wife."...

FILM, MUSIC

“Flower Drum Song,” Whitewashing, and Operation Wetback: A Message from 1961

Heidi Kim

Heidi Kim looks back on "Flower Drum Song" and Hollywood's brief foray in casting Asian American actors to play Asian American characters....

FICTION

Ecological Trauma in the Body: Viet Dinh’s “After Disasters” Explores the Inner Conflicts of Disaster Relief

Heidi Hong - September 22, 2016

Heidi Hong on Viet Dinh’s debut novel, “After Disasters.”...

FILM

Losing My VR-ginity, and Other Disappointments at the World’s First Virtual Reality Cinema

Alex Weintraub - September 22, 2016

Alex Weintraub on the many shortcomings of Virtual Reality Cinema....

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J. K. Lavin is a fine art photographer whose process incorporates randomness and chance. She is primarily interested in nocturnal photography, using vintage analog cameras and color print film, with which she explores themes of time, memory and loss. After studying photography at the University of Minnesota, Center of the Eye and The Visual Studies Workshop, she received a Master of Arts degree in photography from California State University, Fullerton. Recently her work has been shown at Fotofever, Paris (2015), Month of Photography Los Angeles (2016) and two recent solo exhibitions at Spot Photo Works, Los Angeles (2015) and currently at Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa.

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