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“The End Is Where We Start From”: On Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture”
Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.”
Bradley BabendirSep 25, 2017
Star Trek: Discovery
Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle for Dear TV ravenously consume two new hours of Star Trek: Discovery. What's the verdict? The present sucks.
Aaron Bady, Sarah MesleSep 25, 2017
- Dear Television
Sunset for a Blog and a Double Birthday
Saying goodbye to the BLARB China Blog, and hello to the China Channel; plus, celebrating a double birthday.
Jeffrey WasserstromSep 25, 2017
The Truths We Do Not Know We Know
Megan N. Liberty reviews Teju Cole's "Blind Spot."
Megan N. LibertySep 25, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
Art Inside: Graduation Day
Annie Buckley describes graduation from the Yearlong Certificate in Art and Creative Writing program at a prison in Chino, for "Art Inside."
Annie BuckleySep 25, 2017
A Man Walks In and Takes Off His Hat: When the Devil Visits Colombia
Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-VanegasSep 24, 2017
Hiding in Plain View: The Past and Present of Manipulative Advertising
Sixty years after Vance Packard’s “The Hidden Persuaders,” the persuaders are out in the open.
Mark BartholomewSep 24, 2017
Why We Fail and How
We fail precisely because we are so afraid of failure.
Costica BradatanSep 24, 2017
- Philosophy & Religion
Three Recent Books, Including a Funny and Inventive Graphic Novel, On What It Means to Be a Korean
Charles Montgomery provides three recent books, including a funny and inventive graphic novel, on what it means to be a Korean.
Charles MontgomerySep 24, 2017
The Farhang Foundation 9th Annual Short Film Festival
An interview with Sepideh Salehi and Kamran Taherimoghaddam, creators of "Strappa," a short in the Farhang Foundation 9th Annual Short Film Festival.
Orly MinazadSep 24, 2017
No, Speed Limit: John Scalzi’s “The Collapsing Empire”
John Scalzi’s “The Collapsing Empire” is one of the most important revisionist hyperspace narratives to come along in some time.
Gerry CanavanSep 23, 2017
- SF
On “Coming of Age”: Margaret Mead’s Correspondence and the Biographical Problem
Deborah Blum’s new biography of anthropologist Margaret Mead poses questions about the ethical underpinnings of early fieldwork and the genre of biography.
Megan TuslerSep 23, 2017
Heliopolis and Helipad
Joshua CloverSep 23, 2017
A Middle Class Childhood in the Middle East: Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim’s Poppies of Iraq
Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim’s "Poppies of Iraq," about Findakly's middle-class childhood in Iraq.
Nathan Scott McNamaraSep 23, 2017
Where’s the Great “Climate Change Novel”? A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh
Steve Paulson interviews author Amitav Ghosh on contemporary fiction’s failure to grapple with climate change.
Steve PaulsonSep 22, 2017
I Won’t Fear My Passions Like a Coward: On William E. Jones’s “Fall into Ruin”
Rob Goyanes on William E. Jones and Alexander Iolas.
Rob GoyanesSep 22, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Film