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The X-Men and the Legacy of AIDS
Jackson Ayres considers what the Legacy Virus in X-Men can tell us about how we understand AIDS.
All Essays
Conventional Media
A-J Aronstein uses Norman Mailer and "Medium Cool" to recall the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Gentrification
A satirical piece by Yxta Maya Murray about the Boyle Heights artwashing controversy.
A God Who Let Us Prove His Existence Would Be An Idol: Archie Rand, “The 613,” and the Slippery, Vexing, Kafkaesque Problem Of the Jewish Visual Imagination
Are murals kosher in Brooklyn? Robert Anthony Siegel talks to Archie Rand to find out.
The Border Wall
Casey Walker offers a personal relation to Trump’s Wall.
Keith Douglas: A War Poet Remembered but Not Simplified
Steven L. Isenberg appreciates the vibrancy of Keith Douglas, Britain’s greatest poet of World War II.
Helen DeWitt’s Philological Fictions
A look at Helen DeWitt’s novels on the rerelease of her novel “The Last Samurai.”
Flowers and All: Rockhaven Sanitarium and Women’s Mental Health
Tiffancy Hearsey witnesses the "arrested decay" of Rockhaven Sanitarium in Glendale and reconsiders our approach to women’s mental health.
Who's Afraid of Serial TV?
Too Much and Too Little: A History of David Foster Wallace’s “The Pale King”
David Hering offers an excerpt from his new book "David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form."
The Queen of the Night Sings Hamlet
Wai Chee Dimock Stephen Frears's "Florence Foster Jenkins."
Sunday Night Football
Žižek’s Trans/gender Trouble
Che Gossett responds to Slavoj Žižek’s essay “The Sexual Is Political,” published in "The Philosophical Salon."
Where “It” Was: Rereading Stephen King’s “It” on Its 30th Anniversary
On its 30th anniversary, Adrian Daub revisits Stephen King’s “It” to ask: What is "It" about?
America First: Reading “The Plot Against America” in the Age of Trump
Mark P. Bresnan views the rise of Donald Trump through the lens of “The Plot Against America” by Philip Roth.
Silence, Las Vegas: The Second and Final Implosion of the Riviera Hotel and Casino
Joshua Baldwin remembers the second and final implosion of the Riviera Hotel and Casino.
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