Archive

Do They Know It’s Xmas?
Tanya Agathocleous and Marina Bilbija find cross-cultural literary ties to the Christian holiday.
Marina BilbijaDec 30, 2020
Writing Toward the Inescapable: On Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Igifu”
Martha Cooley reviews the latest Scholastique Mukasonga book to be translated into English, “Igifu.”
Martha CooleyDec 29, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Dance Yourself Clean: Lovers Rock x The Crown
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak explores the two Londons, the two lovers, and the two dance sequences of Lovers Rock and The Crown.
Phillip MaciakDec 29, 2020
- Dear Television
Treating Epidemics in a Nazi Ghetto
In Theresienstadt, a Nazi ghetto, efficiently managing epidemics was how the Jewish inmates maintained some semblance of a livable society.
Anna Hájková, Michael BeckermanDec 29, 2020
Work Sucks: On Anne Helen Petersen’s “Can’t Even”
Economic regression. Rithika Ramamurthy reviews Anne Helen Petersen’s “Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation."
Dec 29, 2020
A More Muscular Government?: On Barbara Freese’s “Industrial-Strength Denial”
How denial of the truth is a corporate problem, and the potential cure is politics.
Dec 28, 2020
Ray Bradbury at 100: A Conversation Between Sam Weller and Dana Gioia
Sam Weller and Dana Gioia commemorate the centennial of Ray Bradbury’s birth and discuss the global impact of his storytelling.
Dana Gioia, Sam WellerDec 28, 2020
- SF
Letters from Prison: A Conversation with Mike Africa Jr.
A discussion of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s “Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row.”
Aaron ShulmanDec 28, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Histories of Violence: Look Closer at the World, There You Will See
Brad Evans speaks with Isaac Cordal, a Spanish Galician artist whose work involves sculpture and photography in the urban environment.
Brad EvansDec 28, 2020
Part II: A Constituency of the Powerless: Homeless in Los Angeles
For Los Angeles, the advantage of the homeless crisis is that the public has finally recognized the crisis as a crisis.
Joseph GiovanniniDec 27, 2020
- Politics
ON LOS ANGELES: Part I: A Downtown in Downtown: Los Angeles’s Manifest Destiny
DTLA 2040 is an ambitious and comprehensive plan to guide the development of greater downtown.
Joseph GiovanniniDec 27, 2020
- History
- Politics
The Frenchman and “The Irishman”
Martin Scorsese’s 2019 film “The Irishman” matches the austere mood of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 masterpiece “Army of Shadows.”
David EhrensteinDec 27, 2020
- Film
The Other Mr. Met
Bob Blaisdell reviews a new biography of the late, great Tom Terrific.
Dec 27, 2020
Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now
The world of Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons” is rich, strange, and exhilaratingly beautiful; it is also violent and terrible.
Dec 26, 2020
College Admissions Fiction and the Asian American Teen Imaginary
Two new YA novels explore the power of meritocratic myths in Asian American life.
Dec 26, 2020
Shondaland’s Regency: On “Bridgerton”
Patricia A. Matthew examines the multicultural Regency era of Shonda Rhimes's new Netflix series Bridgerton.
Patricia A. MatthewDec 26, 2020
- Television