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Terror Incognita: The Paradoxical History of Cosmic Horror, from Lovecraft to Ligotti
Mike MarianiApr 11, 2014
Site of Memory: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah Project
The Last of the Unjust forms part of a larger project about the Holocaust and memory, which Claude Lanzmann has been working on for over 40 years.
Aaron CutlerApr 8, 2014
Agnès Varda’s California
What drew Agnès Varda, “Grandmother of the French New Wave,” to Los Angeles? LACMA’s current exhibition looks at Varda’s CA films and the lasting impact of the place on her work.
Lauren O'Neill-ButlerApr 8, 2014
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Two Swords"
Anne Helen Petersen, Phillip Maciak, Sarah MesleApr 8, 2014
- Dear Television
Two Photographic Studies for a Long Walk: “Making a Triangle” and “In Berlin”
Joshua EdwardsApr 6, 2014
A Song of DVR and Kindles
Reading Game of Thrones in the Digital Age
Ben PackApr 4, 2014
- Dear Television
“Game of Thrones”: Cynicism Rules
Maria CromptonApr 4, 2014
The Limits of Muslim Liberalism
Zaheer Kazmi on what the phrase “liberal Islam” means.
Zaheer Kazmi Apr 4, 2014
- Religion
Vicious Disequilibrium
Vicious underground forces that are begetting disequilibrium, despondency, and discontent.
Yanis VaroufakisApr 3, 2014
The War in Troy Did Not Take Place: The Wooster Group’s "Cry, Trojans!"
The Wooster Group returned to Shakespeare this spring with a completely preposterous and seriously probing, if flawed, production of Troilus and Cressida.
Martin HarriesApr 3, 2014
A Lone Penguin: The Story Behind "NK"
What can and can’t you talk about as a filmmaker in Argentina?
Jessica SequeiraApr 3, 2014
"Broad City": Season 1
Theses on the Dance Moves of Ilana Glazer
Anne Helen Petersen, Phillip MaciakApr 2, 2014
Shivering Denizens of His Mad Realm
The stories of Edinburgh's forgotten underclass
Will NicollApr 2, 2014
A Box of Her Own: On "Finding Vivian Maier"
Almost no one knew Vivian Maier. Until now.
Haley MlotekApr 1, 2014
Vacating The Here And Now For a There and Then: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz
Considering the legacy of José Esteban Muñoz and the tools he provided his students, artists, friends, and readers with to construct their own queer worlds.
Emily ColucciMar 31, 2014
Water World
The connection between Los Angeles’s William Mulholland and Dublin’s James Joyce.
Robert CreminsMar 30, 2014