Archive

Resister in Sanctuary: We Won't Go
Louise Steinman on "WE WON’T GO: The L.A. Resistance, Vietnam and the Draft," at the Central Library’s Getty Gallery until August 19.
Louise SteinmanAug 14, 2018
How James Joyce Shaped Brazil’s New Breakout Film, Araby
Affonso Uchoa's and João Dumans's new film "Araby," shows that the worker's plight crosses time and space from 20th-century Ireland to present-day Brazil.
Mike BroidaAug 14, 2018
To Endure the Void: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” Trilogy
Josie Mitchell surveys the “autofictional” project of Rachel Cusk, which reaches its end with “Kudos.”
Josie MitchellAug 13, 2018
- Fiction
A Tale of Two States
Is the United States’s future going to be more like Wisconsin or California?
Darryl HolterAug 13, 2018
- Politics
A First Meal: In Memory of Jonathan Gold
Robert Abele remembers the "peculiarly joyous specialty born of eating with Jonathan Gold."
Robert AbeleAug 13, 2018
Past Progressive: Dan Kaufman’s “The Fall of Wisconsin”
A smart analysis of how foundations and outside money helped turn a left-leaning state to Trump.
Jake WertzAug 13, 2018
- Politics
Teeth of the Matter: Notes from a Maggie Nelson Reading
Mattie Wyndham reflects on corporeality and freedom from shame at a Maggie Nelson reading of "Something Bright, Then Holes" at Skylight Books.
Mattie WyndhamAug 13, 2018
The Republican Party Is Dead: A Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer
A senior advisor to Barack Obama opens up about Trump.
Gregg LaGambinaAug 12, 2018
- Politics
Black Magic Realism: John Rechy’s First Novel
A witches’ brew of magic, legend, and tortured faith.
Marilyn MacronAug 12, 2018
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Beyond Physical Coexistence: Aminatta Forna’s “Happiness”
Aminatta Forna's "Happiness" shows us why we must embrace coexistence and how this works in practice.
Mariatu SantiagoAug 12, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Rethinking the #MeToo Movement: Lessons from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," offers a useful socio-economic framework for the #MeToo Movement.
Clementine FordAug 12, 2018
Not Getting Away With It
Kelly Candaele, himself an identical twin, on the documentary "Three Identical Strangers."
Kelly CandaeleAug 12, 2018
Yuri Tynianov’s “Film — Word — Music” (1924)
Vera Koshkina and Ainsley Morse present “Film — Word — Music,” a 1924 essay on film by the great Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov.
Ainsley Morse, Vera Koshkina, Yuri TynianovAug 11, 2018
- Around the World
- Film
“The Terror of History”: On Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade
Philip Ó Ceallaigh unravels the complicated relationship, in life and fiction, between Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade.
Philip Ó CeallaighAug 11, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Let Us Rejoice While We Are Young
Maria Rybakova reviews Mircea Eliade's early novel "Gaudeamus," recently translated by Christopher Bartholomew and released by Istros Books.
Maria RybakovaAug 11, 2018
Rencontres d'Arles 2018: Top Euro Photo Fest, Through a Lens Darkly
Michael Kurcfeld visits the international photography festival Rencontres D'Arles 2018, and sees it through the bleak lens of the modern cultural zeitgeist.
Michael KurcfeldAug 11, 2018