All Essays

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  Mad Men, Season 7: "The Forecast"

  Never Too Late

  Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakApr 20, 2015

  • Dear Television

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  Game of Thrones: Season 5, "The House of Black and White"

  50 Shades of Black and White

  Sarah MesleApr 20, 2015

  • Dear Television

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  Peter Zumthor at LACMA: A Preacher in the Wrong Church

  Joseph GiovanniniApr 19, 2015

  • Art & Architecture

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  The Anti-Mamet: On Tina Fey’s Men

  Masculinity in '30 Rock' and 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'

  Nicholas MirielloApr 18, 2015

  • Television

• Cloudbusting

  The cloud buster would give us rain. My father would be proven right about everything.

  Sarah TomlinsonApr 17, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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  First Takes Venice Beach: Part 2

  Part two in a series of snapshots of people living, working, and playing on the Venice Beach boardwalk. A project by LARB intern Jared Zook.

  LARB AVApr 17, 2015
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  Radio Hour: Literary Immortality, “Wolf Hall,” and the LA Times Festival of Books

  LARB AVApr 16, 2015
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  Mad Men, Season 7: "New Business"

  Round and Round

  Evan Kindley, Jane HuApr 15, 2015

  • Dear Television

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  Minding Other People’s Business: On Dawn Powell

  Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing.

  Victoria PattersonApr 14, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

  "The Treasure Hunter is a fictional film inspired by a true event, which was, in turn, misinterpreted as a true belief in an event in a fictional film."

  Julia FriedmanApr 13, 2015

  • Film

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  Game of Thrones: Season 5, "The Wars to Come"

  Eyes Wide Shut

  Sarah MesleApr 13, 2015

  • Dear Television

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  Waiting for Giorgio

  There was a time when young scholars were encouraged to train with their mentors, instead of just absorbing ideas from the page (or the screen).

  Ananya VajpeyiApr 12, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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  The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

  Lauren Berlant is a critic’s critic, a feminist’s feminist, and a thinker’s friend.

  Virginia JacksonApr 12, 2015

  • Literary Criticism

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  That’s So Awkward: Issa Rae and the Revitalization of Black Women in Television

  Issa Rae’s fictional characters bring real Black women to TV.

  Minda HoneyApr 11, 2015

  • Television

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  The Trouble with Clint

  Jacob Krell examines the later work of Clint Eastwood, including "Gran Torino" and, most recently, "American Sniper"

  Jacob KrellApr 11, 2015

  • Film

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  Radio Hour: Humorist Ellis Weiner

  Featuring Ellis Weiner, former writer and editor at National Lampoon, columnist at Spy magazine, and currently a contributor at The New Yorker.

  LARB AVApr 9, 2015