Game of Thrones: Season 8, "Winterfell"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle dramatically reunite to discuss "Winterfell" and why it's a dumb idea for Game of Thrones to ever really end.
All Essays
Une Française à Los Angeles: Remembering Agnès Varda
There are many ways to remember Agnès Varda — I will remember her time as an L.A. outsider and the first memories of the city that she gave me.
"#UNLOAD: Guns in the Hands of Artists": Decommissioning Gun Violence
A powerful artistic exploration of the human costs of gun violence.
Old Regimes Die Hard
Are there overwhelming contradictions in the French yellow vest movement?
Christian Petzold’s Anti-Speculative Fiction
"Transit" offers the unreassuring thrill of a reasonable, intelligent person having the nerve to say, clearly, just how bad he thinks things are.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “High Flying Bird”
"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus.
The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish
Fady Joudah reflects on water as substance, poetic subject, and way of life.
“Sing of Human Unsuccess / in a Rapture of Distress”: The Tragicomic Poetry of John Tottenham
Anthony Mostrom profiles Los Angeles’s premier poet of poems of regret and resentment, John Tottenham.
The Therapy of Desire: Toward a Revolutionary Philosophy
Samuel Loncar on the revolution we need today.
Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde
To listen to Ilhan Mimaroğlu’s music is to be struck by the multitude of voices, geographies, and struggles with which he was engaged.
Rewriting the West: A Discussion About the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”
A conversation with Michelle García, Carolina A. Miranda, and Fernanda Santos of “Rewriting the West,” a partnership between Michelle García and “Guernica.”
A Place of Vanishing: Barbara Newhall Follett and the Woman in the Woods
On the mysterious disappearance of a once-famous child author.
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan's failures and deceptions surrounding the museum's renovations.
When We Were Brothers: On the Writing of Daša Drndić
Lydia Perović considers the fundamental way in which the Yugoslav 1940s war of liberation structures and haunts all of Daša Drndić’s books.
Becoming Chris: Queerness, Performance, and Héloïse Letissier
Neha Sharma on queerness, performance, identity and the strange case of Héloïse Letissier, leader of Christine and the Queens.
Letter from Chernobyl
On the front lines of dark tourism.
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