Young Adult Cancer Story
“I only know what it’s like to read The Fault in Our Stars as a woman in my mid-30s who is friends with a woman in her mid-30s who, like Hazel Grace Lancaster, has incurable Stage 4 cancer.”...
Young Adult Cancer Story
“I only know what it’s like to read The Fault in Our Stars as a woman in my mid-30s who is friends with a woman in her mid-30s who, like Hazel Grace Lancaster, has incurable Stage 4 cancer.”...
We Need To Talk About Tyrion: How HBO Failed George R. R. Martin’s Iconic Character
IN THE SEASON FOUR finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister goes on a cold-blooded killing rampage. After escaping the dungeons with the help of his brother Jaime, Tyrion murders his former lover, Shae, and his father, Tywin Lannister. ...
Hitler, Continued: Afterword from the Updated Edition of “Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil”
Thinking about Hitler’s suicide now, in the light of 9/11 and the subsequent exaltations of suicide bombing on messianic, theological grounds, does in fact offer a radical new way of characterizing his acts....
Gender, blah, blah, blah
The VIDA count makes obvious the problem; we have to fix it....
A U-Turn on Wilshire: Why Frank Gehry Should Design LACMA
Zumthor’s design for LACMA is a disaster: give it to Gehry....
Srsly.
"Texts from Jane Eyre" Ortberg’s satire matters because it is fantastically able to express women’s anger toward men: men both real, and imagined....
The King Is Dead: Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks”
The decision of one of the century’s most influential philosophers to join forces with one of the most barbaric regimes in human history has been the source of endless controversy....
The Fun of Frost
The Virtues of Know-Nothing Criticism
The Cozy in the Closet: Josh Lanyon’s Holmes and Moriarity Series
Suicidal Thoughts: The Creative Lives and Tragic Deaths of a Prince and a Pauper
Immigrant Lessons
Prying: Jhave on Tender Claws’ New App
On “The New Republic”
Descartes, Dick, and the Dog: Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
The Terror of Colorado Boulevard: Hate, Homicide, and a Holiday Tradition
Studio, Gallery, and Cloud
Sink or Swim: Corinne Mucha Strives to “Get Over It”
Song of Saruman
Repetition and Difference: “Two Days, One Night”
Books in Space: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”
Eight Ways Red
In the Shadow of the Wolf: Little Red Riding Hood in the Contemporary World
“Selma” and Saviors
Puns, Riddles, High Seriousness, and Talking Animals
Songs for a Winter’s Night: “A Treasury of Wintertime Tales”
White Christmas and Black December