All Essays

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  Letter From Slovakia: Winter, Memory, and Thomas Merton

  The Trappist Monk Thomas Merton struggled with resentment in his search for something sacred. Today would have been his 89th birthday.

  Juan VidalJan 31, 2014
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  Welcome to Interzone: On William S. Burroughs' Centennial

  Sand Avidar-WalzerJan 31, 2014
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  This Fan’s Notes: A Football Elegy

  A lifetime fan confronts the NFL’s history of concussion denial and cover-ups

  Sebastian StockmanJan 31, 2014

  • Sports

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  Three Years in Memoriam: Reynolds Price

  Reynolds Price died three years ago this week.

  Win BassettJan 30, 2014
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  Print Party: An Introduction to the LA Art Book Fair 2014

  Anybody who fears that print culture is dead should come bathe in the enthusiasm of the West Coast installation of the world's greatest party for print.

  Robert DewhurstJan 30, 2014
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  Broad City and Kroll Show

  Comedy Central's new sketchy sketch comedies

  Anne Helen Petersen, Jane Hu, Phillip MaciakJan 29, 2014
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  Mourning Tongues: How Auden Was Modified in the Guts of the Living

  One of the most extraordinary elegiac conversations of our time.

  Nina MartyrisJan 28, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  One Does Not Age: Richard Howard

  Richard Howard: poet, translator, teacher, mentor.

  Craig Morgan TeicherJan 27, 2014
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  Kyrgyzstan and the Uzbeks

  Kyrgyzstan and the Uzbeks.

  Max de HaldevangJan 26, 2014
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  When Nixon asked Haldeman about Philip Roth

  Nixon pardoned Lt. Calley for massacring 22 men, women, and children in Vietnam, and came out against abortion the same week. Philip Roth responded.

  Jon WienerJan 25, 2014
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  Light Happens: Based upon a distant memory and a recent viewing of "James Turrell: A Retrospective" at LACMA

  John David O'BrienJan 25, 2014

• True Detective, Season 1: "Seeing Things"

  The foreign object at the center of HBO's True Detective

  Anne Helen Petersen, Phillip MaciakJan 23, 2014
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  Girls, Season 3: "She Said OK"

  Jane Hu, Lili LoofbourowJan 23, 2014
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  Debating Israel and Palestine at the Modern Language Association Convention

  Ruth StarkmanJan 21, 2014
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  The Pleasures and Perils of Reading Jim Krusoe

  Jim Krusoe is not just a writer’s writer, he’s a reader’s writer.

  Monona WaliJan 21, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

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  Jane Austen, Feminist Icon

  The 200th anniversary of Mansfield Park and the 100th anniversary of the debate about Austen’s feminism.

  Devoney LooserJan 20, 2014

  • Literary Criticism