All Essays

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  Infinite Thirst: Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive”

  Einstein, relativity, quantum mechanics and, above all, literature, in Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive"

  Wai Chee DimockMay 13, 2014
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  Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya: on Aage Borchgrevink’s "A Norwegian Tragedy"

  When a person commits an atrocity, our immediate, stuttering questions are why and how? Can reading a mass murderer’s own account answer those questions?

  Rachel MonroeMay 12, 2014
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  The City of LA Goes Dumpster Diving

  The City of Los Angeles is going into the franchising business — with garbage.

  Richard HertzbergMay 11, 2014
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  Contemporary Nonfiction Comics from Elsewhere

  Nonfiction comics — the rest of the world is ahead of the US.

  Anne Elizabeth MooreMay 9, 2014
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  We Are Long Overdue for a Paul Robeson Revival

  The Most Talented Person of the 20th Century

  Peter DreierMay 8, 2014
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  Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills”

  Cindy Sherman not only moved from the outside in, but also from the abstract and conceptual to the real and tangible.

  Dahlia SchweitzerMay 7, 2014
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  Excerpts from “In a Wood, with Clearings, It’s Spring”

  Excerpts from Sarah Blake’s poem “In a Wood, with Clearings, It’s Spring.”

  Sarah BlakeMay 7, 2014
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  Louie, Season 4: "Back" and "Model"

  Clotheslined

  Lili LoofbourowMay 6, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  Game of Thrones: Season 4, "First of His Name"

  Hurt Girls

  Sarah MesleMay 6, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  Good Old Wallace

  The prophecy in DFW's "Good Old Neon"

  Tim PetersMay 4, 2014
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  Against Boycotting Ideas: A Reply to Three Colleagues

  Russell A. BermanApr 30, 2014
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  A Pleasure to Burn

  “I wanted to build a bookstore. The goal was simple: to found a cooperative; to think small. That way, we thought, nobody would get hurt. But someone did.”

  Jonathan P. EburneApr 30, 2014

• Mad Men, Season 7: "Field Trip"

  In Defense of Betty Draper

  Anne Helen PetersenApr 29, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  For National Poetry Month: “Post-Verdict Renga for Trayvon”

  Lauren K. AlleyneApr 29, 2014
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  Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Oathkeeper"

  Game of Thrones, Cliven Bundy, & the Fantasy of Freedom

  Sarah MesleApr 29, 2014

  • Dear Television

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  For National Poetry Month: "Live Rust," "Peel Off the Scabs"

  New Poems from Michael Robbins

  Michael RobbinsApr 28, 2014