All Essays

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  A Secondary Art: The Letters of Malcolm Cowley

  Evan Kindley on Malcolm Cowley, book reviewer and editor.

  Evan KindleyJul 30, 2014

  • Nonfiction

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  Report From the Flatlands of Statistics

  From "Around the World"

  Mathilde Walter ClarkJul 29, 2014

  • Around the World

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  Thomas Berger: A Celebration

  Thomas Berger has died, but he always said it was all about the work, not the life.

  Brooks LandonJul 26, 2014
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  Atrocity Exhibition

  Benjamin Anastas on the 9/11 Museum and the loss of history.

  Benjamin AnastasJul 24, 2014
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  Access Is the Enemy of Disparity — But Access to What?

  Annie BuckleyJul 24, 2014
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  DeLillo and the Triumph of Solitude

  Woody LewisJul 23, 2014
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  Settling Accounts: The Ethics of Development-Induced Displacement

  Jake Flanagin weighs the ethical costs of developing public works in Central Asia.

  Jake FlanaginJul 22, 2014
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  How Much Does “Does Poetry Matter” Matter?

  This weekend, The New York Times asked, "Does Poetry Matter?" Today, Jonathan Farmer asks, "Do Questions Like This Matter?"

  Jonathan FarmerJul 21, 2014

  • Poetry

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  It Gets Better: The Evolution of "Queer TV"

  Rachel EdelmanJul 21, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Television

• A U-Turn on Wilshire: Why Frank Gehry Should Design LACMA

  Zumthor’s design for LACMA is a disaster: give it to Gehry.

  Joseph GiovanniniJul 20, 2014
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  “Geologic Time from Now On!”: Lorine Niedecker’s “Lake Superior”

  Heather HouserJul 19, 2014
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  Backroads Noir in the Australian Outback: David Michôd’s “The Rover”

  "Mad Max" meets "Murder, My Sweet."

  Andrew NetteJul 18, 2014

  • Noir

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  Lily King on the Publication of Euphoria

  Finishing a novel is like a break-up; you lose your characters and everyone attached to them, their friends, their family. You see a blue hat and you remember a story from their youth, which was never your youth, though for a while it felt exactly like it.

  Lily KingJul 18, 2014
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  America’s Memory of the Vietnam War in the Epoch of the Forever War

  H. Bruce Franklin on our war-weariness.

  H. Bruce FranklinJul 16, 2014

• Young Adult Cancer Story

  “I only know what it’s like to read The Fault in Our Stars as a woman in my mid-30s who is friends with a woman in her mid-30s who, like Hazel Grace Lancaster, has incurable Stage 4 cancer.”

  Briallen HopperJul 16, 2014

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Piety and Perversity: The Palms of Los Angeles

  A comprehensive look at the history — and the myth — of Los Angeles’s most potent symbol.

  Victoria DaileyJul 14, 2014