All Essays

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  House of Cards, Season 2

  It's Just Okay. And That's Okay.

  Anne Helen Petersen, Lili LoofbourowMar 5, 2014
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  We Wish We Weren’t in Kansas Anymore: An Elegy for Academic Freedom

  Michael MeranzeMar 4, 2014

  • Remaking the University

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  #tessnation: Nation, and Diaspora in the 21st Century

  Sheri-Marie HarrisonMar 3, 2014
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  Becoming Human: On Spike Jonze’s "Her"

  Spike Jonze’s HER and how artificial intelligence can teach you to become more human

  Jessica GrossMar 2, 2014
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  Answers on a Postcard: Mobile Citizenship

  Lytton Smith on his island.

  Lytton SmithMar 1, 2014
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  The Embassy of Gossip: Zadie Smith’s First-Person Plural

  First-person plural is the least used fictional POV, but it is necessary for political action — and both are steeped in gossip.

  Kaya GençMar 1, 2014
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  Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood: Writing the Script for Gay Liberation

  Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley shared a long friendship as well as a belief in the religious philosophy of Vendanta. The writers’ connection is revealed in A Single Man, Isherwood’s groundbreaking novel.

  Katherine BucknellFeb 28, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  Reading the Academy Awards

  Five short stories adapted into Oscar-nominated films

  Neelanjana BanerjeeFeb 28, 2014
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  Who’s Afraid of Walter Mitty? Liam Heneghan on Dealing With the “Thurber Man”

  Over the decades, Thurber wrote a comprehensive natural history of a species: the Thurber Man. Thurber Men share a charismatic ineptitude.

  Liam HeneghanFeb 26, 2014
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  A Walking Tour of V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street

  Today, Luis Street has no outward signs of having inspired Naipaul's novel Miguel Street. This is, I would guess, how Naipaul would want it.

  Evan CalbiFeb 26, 2014
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  My Friend, Frasier Crane

  Netflix, 'Her,' and the endless search for intimacy

  Nicholas MirielloFeb 25, 2014
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  No Oscar: Inside Llewyn Davis

  Wai Chee DimockFeb 24, 2014
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  “Till They Choke on It”: On "Wolf of Wall Street"

  Martin Scorsese’s "The Wolf of Wall Street"

  Naomi FryFeb 23, 2014
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  Chronicles of the Veil

  Laila LalamiFeb 23, 2014
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  The Unknown Inside

  Alain Guiraudie’s "L’inconnu du lac" (“Stranger by the Lake”)

  Francey RussellFeb 21, 2014
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  We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part IX: On Domestic Labor

  LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi.

  Lytton SmithFeb 21, 2014