Portrait of a Press: The University of Akron Series in Poetry
On the fight to keep the Akron Series in Poetry alive.
All Essays
John Green and His Manic Pixie Dream Girls
The fantasy of being a manic pixie dream girl is a potent and insidious one for teen girls.
Nostalgia for the Lost Subject of Technology in the Work of Casey Reas
Johanna Drucker on the nostalgia generated by our machines.
Our Lady of Sorrows: On "The X-Files"
Dear Television chats about The X-Files season 10 miniseries
The “New” Nostalgia of Montreal’s 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
The "New" Nostalgia of Montreal's 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.
Down Dog by Anonymous
Ellen Collett's "Down Dog by Anonymous."
Launched into Space: Non-Representation in “Everything and More,” by Rachel Rose
"Everything and More," Rachel Rose's dazzling and disorienting video installation at the Whitney Museum, makes advocates of its doubters.
Fifty Shades of Yellow: DeMille’s Orientalism
The Cheat is a different kind of film from Cecil B. DeMille.
Mourning Politics
G Herbo's mixtape is essentially a valediction: a struggle to mourn the victims of a racist culture.
“Dreamland” by Sam Quinones
An explosive and harrowing look into the opiate epidemic, Big Pharma, and the consequences of capitalism run amok in the heartland of America. Check out our Spring 2016 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” by Sam Quinones.
Art during Austerity: On "Mozart in the Jungle"
Dear Television reviews Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle"
On Bureaucracy and the Left
A genuinely left-wing critique of bureaucracy is long overdue. But it's also a very difficult proposition.
I don't think we know we are in this song
An appreciation of David Bowie's alien glamorous life
The Scale of the Beast
The story of Jumbo the elephant, the first circus elephant to become a celebrity.
The Evolution of the Last Dinosaur
Relatives and relationships, born or adopted, provide the fundamental social thematics of "The Good Dinosaur."
Stakes Is High: On Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”
Chicago, to Lee, is a city of visions, visions susceptible to the restorative, conciliatory power of art, as well as to art's destructive influences.
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