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The Viral Imagination
Contagion creates new conditions for moral appraisal.
Elizabeth WinklerNov 17, 2014
Necro-streaming
Notes on Watching a Dead Show
Phillip MaciakNov 17, 2014
- Dear Television
Paris Envy: Frank Gehry’s Vuitton Foundation
Joseph GiovanniniNov 16, 2014
- Art & Architecture
Bebop/Silence: On Hickey & Boggs
"The final irony of Hickey & Boggs is that this movie about isolation and displacement is an affirmation of a real-life partnership."
Charles TaylorNov 16, 2014
- Film
On John Williams’s Novel “Augustus”: A Conversation
Not even "Augustus" brought John Williams the attention he deserved in his lifetime.
Charles J. Shields, William GiraldiNov 16, 2014
- Fiction
1916 Revisited
Dublin's Easter Rising
Robert CreminsNov 15, 2014
- History
Hide Your Smiling Faces and the Ownership of Public Deaths
Alana MasseyNov 14, 2014
- Film
The Sick and the Tired
On HBO's 'Getting On'
Evan Kindley, Lili LoofbourowNov 14, 2014
- Dear Television
The Human in University Education
A meditation on how we organize and produce knowledge at the university, and the need for study of study.
Paul A. BovéNov 13, 2014
- Education
- Philosophy & Religion
Terror at the Opera: Klinghoffer and the Extremists
Rory Tolan on the ethics of opera and the protesters of "The Death of Klinghoffer."
Rory TolanNov 13, 2014
Three the Hard Way: The Return of Sleater-Kinney
On Sleater-Kinney’s legacy upon the release of their vinyl boxset, "Start Together."
Charles TaylorNov 12, 2014
- Music
Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part II
Part II of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman.
Arne De Boever, Efrain KristalNov 12, 2014
- Philosophy & Religion
Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part I
Part I of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman.
Arne De Boever, Efrain KristalNov 11, 2014
- Philosophy & Religion
“Perfidia” by James Ellroy
At the brink of World War II, the murder of a Japanese family brings four distinct individuals together—an LAPD captain, an ex-IRA fighter, a police chemist, and a 21-year-old dilettante—into the eye of the crime’s political storm. Check out our Winter 2015 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Perfida” by James Ellroy.
Nov 11, 2014
The Authorized Surveillance of Edward Snowden
On Laura Poitras’s 'Citizenfour'
Ava KofmanNov 10, 2014
- Film
All-American Girl at 20: The Evolution of Asian Americans on TV
Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl at 20 and the evolution of Asian Americans on TV.
E. Alex JungNov 9, 2014
- Television