All Essays

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  Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Watchers on the Wall"

  Mammoth Genre

  Sarah MesleJun 10, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  Egypt has a New President and Everything is Normal

  Carol BergerJun 10, 2014
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  The Feels of Friendship

  Korean dramas have refreshing views of same-sex friendship, but do their gains depend on a gay retreat to the closet?

  Eric NewmanJun 10, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Television

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  Daddy’s Tune: Jackson Browne and the Moment of the Dad

  Jackson Browne hasn't garnered late-career hipster love bestowed upon many of his contemporaries. Instead, he's been consigned to that most ignominious of genres: "Dad-rock"

  Michael JauchenJun 9, 2014
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  “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables

  Gerry CanavanJun 9, 2014
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  Beer in the Snooker Club: The Introduction

  Pankaj MishraJun 8, 2014
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  Perilous Delivery: Inside India’s Maternal Health Crisis

  From "Around the World"

  Allyn GaestelJun 8, 2014
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  Portrait of a Press: Write Bloody Fights to Bring the Stage to the Page

  Isla McKetta spends a long weekend with Write Bloody, exploring one of the most eccentric presses in poetry today.

  Isla McKettaJun 7, 2014
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  Louie, Season 4: "Elevator, Part 6" and "Pamela, Part 1"

  Man on the Brink

  Lili LoofbourowJun 6, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Mountain and the Viper"

  The Trans Oberyn Tipping Point

  Sarah MesleJun 4, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  The 100-Year-Old Who Taught Garbo to Waltz

  Shep Houghton had a 50-year career as an actor in Hollywood, from silents in the 1920s through the gory 1970s. He retired almost 40 years ago. Today he turns 100.

  Matt WeinstockJun 4, 2014
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  Maps and Territories

  Michael SchmellingJun 4, 2014
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  Geoff Nicholson Maps the Territory

  Anthony MillerJun 4, 2014
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  “Flames in a Mirror”: Tiananmen Square 25 Years Later

  Tiananmen Square, then and now.

  Mishi SaranJun 3, 2014
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  The Black Iron Cage: Taiwanese Protesters in an Age of Global Unrest

  A student occupation of Taiwan signals a greater global unrest.

  Albert WuJun 3, 2014
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  A Remembrance: Jon Boorstin’s Parallax View on Gordon Willis (1931 – 2014)

  Jon Boorstin remembers cinematographer Gordon Willis.

  Jon BoorstinJun 1, 2014