All Essays

• Alfredo Jaar and the Happiness of Chile

  Alfredo Jaar wants to know: "Are you happy?"

  Caille MillnerDec 8, 2013
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  The Friends of the Museum

  The Museum of Innocence is 500 days old; the things in the shops around it are older.

  Kaya GençDec 8, 2013

  • Around the World

  • Fiction

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  CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin on Drone Warfare

  Allegra L. Funsten, Don FranzenDec 5, 2013
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  David Cronenberg Wants to Be Inside You: On “Cronenberg: Evolution”

  On November 1, 2013, the Toronto International Film Festival opened its first original traveling exhibition entitled Cronenberg: Evolution.

  Haley MlotekDec 4, 2013

  • Film

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  Jonestown as Genre: Ti West’s "The Sacrament"

  In The Sacrament, the conflation of media publicity and private lives, which was always present in the Jonestown massacre, now becomes the main subject.

  Donal HarrisDec 3, 2013

  • Film

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  The Death of Anas al-Atrash

  Ben EhrenreichDec 1, 2013
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  The Two Faces of New Orleans: HBO’s “Treme”

  Tomas HachardDec 1, 2013

  • Television

• After Les

  Memories of Les Plesko.

  Ruth FowlerNov 30, 2013
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  Animals and Monarchs: Inside AFI Fest 2013

  Its 27th iteration now concluded, AFI Fest has reaffirmed its status as the most worthwhile film festival in Los Angeles.

  Michael NordineNov 30, 2013

• Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves: Leos Carax’s “Mauvais sang”

  French director Leos Carax’s 1986 “Mauvais sang”

  Charles TaylorNov 29, 2013

• The Dangerous Housewife: Santa Barbara's Margaret Millar

  A forgotten genius of noir.

  Kathleen SharpNov 28, 2013

• Fiction: New & Noteworthy

  Nov 27, 2013

• Poe in Hard Times: Terror of the Soul at The Morgan Library & Museum

  It’s the desire to come closer to Poe, in all his precariousness, that brings us to the banker’s house, to inspect these precious things.

  Caleb SmithNov 26, 2013
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  A Time-Lapse Detective: 25 Years of Agatha Christie’s "Poirot"

  For the past 25 years, viewers have watched an actor and character grow and change together, episode by episode, year by year: a time-lapse detective.

  Molly McArdleNov 25, 2013
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  Still Loyal to the Sentence

  The secret life of sentences

  Susan Scarf MerrellNov 25, 2013

  • Literary Criticism

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  When the Shell of the Body Becomes Irrelevant: A Palestinian Activist in Israel

  A profile of a Palestinian activist living in Israel.

  Ben EhrenreichNov 24, 2013