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Radio Hour: Oscar-worthy Acting & Literary Tourism
Cultural historian Leo Braudy talks trends among award-winning actors, and author Judith Freeman on literary tourism and her book The Long Embrace.
LARB AVFeb 26, 2015
I Am a Fucking Plagiarist
“I was a plagiarist already — but that’s the moment I became a fucking plagiarist.”
Javier Grillo-MarxuachFeb 26, 2015
- Memoir & Essay
Falling in Love with Simenon
Cara Black on Georges Simenon and Paris.
Cara BlackFeb 26, 2015
- Noir
Iain Sinclair: A Life in Film
It was film that first brought Iain Sinclair to London.
Daniel Marc JanesFeb 25, 2015
- Film
Genderalizations
Times Literary Supplement editor Toby Lichtig responds to Katherine Angel's essay on gender bias in the literary world.
Toby LichtigFeb 24, 2015
- Gender & Sexuality
Acting and Impersonation
Leo Braudy on Acting Otherness and the Academy Awards.
Leo BraudyFeb 22, 2015
- Film
Words Are Stupid and All of Time Is Standing Here Before Us: On “Boyhood”
Boyhood's "real genius lies not in how much it fills us up with a sense of ourselves, but how queerly empty it leaves us."
Feb 22, 2015
Radio Hour: Harper Lee, Literary Hub, & Fifty Shades of Grey
Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland talk about literature, arts and politics, along with interviews and critiques from today's leading writers.
LARB AVFeb 21, 2015
Amnesty and Justice for All: The Art of Regina José Galindo
Regina José Galindo’s work is part of a long tradition of merging political commentary and performance art in Latin America.
Elena ShtrombergFeb 21, 2015
- Around the World
- Art & Architecture
On Reading Graham Greene in Liberia in a Time of Ebola
Featuring photographs by Cheryl Hatch.
Brian CastnerFeb 20, 2015
- Around the World
I Want My Anti-TV: On “Tim and Eric”
“Steve Brule Special” and “Bagboy”
Gavin TomsonFeb 20, 2015
- Television
Hey Phil
An obituary poem for Philip Levine by Juan Felipe Herrera.
Juan Felipe HerreraFeb 17, 2015
- Poetry
Homesick: On Larry Sultan at LACMA
"In the photography of Larry Sultan, it’s the everyday, the ordinary, and the vernacular that prevail."
Kate WolfFeb 16, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Maigret’s Jurisdiction
Maybe now critics will give Maigret his due.
Elliott CollaFeb 15, 2015
- Noir
You Look Tired: A Guided Meditation
A guided meditation with the most visionary writer of the infant millennium.
Robert BuscemiFeb 14, 2015
- Humor
The Subversive and Liberating World of G. Willow Wilson
"Kamala, the product of Disney-owned Marvel, managed to be more than a gimmick."
Molly HannonFeb 14, 2015