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“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.”...
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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 Posthuman Scar-Jo
"Scarlett Johansson is a human actress; Scar-Jo is her brand name."...
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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
