All Essays

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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
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  Art for the One Percent: John Currin at Gagosian

  "Currin has suffered lots of slings and arrows along the way on his rise to art stardom, and the barbs have just bounced off as if made of Jell-O."

  Clayton CampbellApr 9, 2015

  • Art & Architecture

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  Mad Men, Season 7: "Severance"

  'Mad Men' Fantasies

  Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakApr 7, 2015

  • Dear Television

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  Woman out of Time: On “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

  The latest in the "man out of time" storytelling tradition, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" subverts the form, skewering the absurdity of our era.

  Andrew Benedict-NelsonApr 6, 2015

  • Television

• Memories of a Chicana Falsa

  A tribute to Michele Serros, author, punk-rock surfer girl, and “chicana role model.”

  Apr 4, 2015

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird

  A Review of 'Dope Machines' and 'Songs of God and Whiskey' by The Airborne Toxic Event.

  Apr 4, 2015

• Return of the King: “Mad Men” and the Greatest Story Ever Sold

  "Mad Men" has something unsettling (and historically accurate) to tell us about the way that white male power works.

  Apr 2, 2015
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  Radio Hour: Meghan Daum’s “Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed”

  Meghan Daum discusses a new collection of essays she edited titled "Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids."

  LARB AVApr 1, 2015

• To Establish Justice at the Gates

  If you’re not asking questions about Mike Brown, Eric Garner, or Charley Robinet, then you’re as far away from the answer as ever.

  Apr 1, 2015

• We Remain: Polin, Museum of the History of Polish Jews

  We all miss Poland and we all long to return — although not in the same way that we want to return to Israel. For most Jews, Poland remains a graveyard. You return to a graveyard to say kaddish.

  Mar 31, 2015

• Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information

  The afterword to the new edition of "TechGnosis."

  Mar 29, 2015

• ISIS, Hollywood, Islam

  New from "Around the World"

  Mar 28, 2015

• Dinamo Mesken: Turkish Football as a Political … Football

  New from "Around the World"

  Mar 28, 2015

• It Is for Love That I Live: The Legacy of Rod McKuen

  When Rod McKuen died, one strained to hear in his obituaries any of the “warm” that McKuen enjoins us to “listen to” in one of his most famous poems. Little love remained for the foremost love poet of his era.

  Mar 26, 2015
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  On the Renaissance Career of Judith Kitchen: Four Assessments

  Gabriel Blackwell, Stephen Corey, Kevin Clark, Dinah Lenney, and Marjorie Sandor write about Judith Kitchen.

  Gabriel Blackwell, Kevin Clark, Marjorie Sandor, Stephen CoreyMar 25, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Poetry

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  Capsid: A Love Song

  How to live and love with AIDS.

  Joseph OsmundsonMar 23, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay