All Essays

• If I Could Walk Away From Me

  On Lou Reed's obscurity

  Corley MillerNov 3, 2013
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  A Moment's Choice: Cormac McCarthy’s "The Counselor"

  As in many McCarthy stories, The Counselor rides on the weight of what appears to be a moment’s choice.

  Alyssa PelishNov 2, 2013

• The Amulet and World War Three

  A book could be the antidote to terror.

  Julia Mary GibsonOct 31, 2013

• Psych, Lies, and Audiotape: The Tarnished Legacy of the Milgram Shock Experiments

  Did a scientist famous for establishing patterns of human obedience via electric shocks lie about his research?

  Johannes LichtmanOct 30, 2013

• FICTION ROUND-UP

  New fiction by Donna Tartt, Charles Blackstone, Lucy Corin, Daniel Alarcón, and Susan Choi

  LARBOct 30, 2013

• A Beatnik Animal House: John Krokidas’s “Kill Your Darlings”

  One hopes teenagers trained on “Howl” and on the sardonic Burroughs of Junky and Naked Lunch will recognize when they’re being condescended to.

  Len GutkinOct 29, 2013

• Re-Make “Made in America”: Community Real Estate Construction and Sustainable Development

  How should we remake “Made in America” after the Great Recession? Green community projects and sustainable real estate construction are the key.

  Jon Greenfield, Woodrow W. Clark IIOct 28, 2013
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  Around the World: Launch Edition

  Aliaa El Sandouby, Andrew McGregor, Candice Hoyes, Lea Aschkenas, Marco Musillo, Tomas HachardOct 27, 2013
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  Egypt: The Revolution Continued

  Aliaa El SandoubyOct 27, 2013
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  The Encyclopedic Palace – Venice Biennale 2013

  Marco MusilloOct 27, 2013

• Chasing Ghosts: On Argentinian Author César Aira

  César Aira does not write about awry worlds, but rather about our world suddenly gone very awry, illustrating what Freud wrote about the uncanny in fiction.

  Tomas HachardOct 27, 2013

• The New Mythologies: Deep Bach, Saint Mahler, and the Death Chaconne

  Michael MarkhamOct 26, 2013

• China and the Nobel Prize II

  Oct 25, 2013

• Feeling Blue: On Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

  Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d’Or winning film, Blue Is the Warmest Color, imagines what the world might look like if blue kept time with desire.

  Merve EmreOct 25, 2013

• A Cart of Charcoal in the Snow: Qiu Xiaolong on the Poetry of Wang Xiaolong

  Oct 25, 2013

• So Many Mysteries: Jiayang Fan on Yiyun Li as a World-Class Writer

  Jiayang FanOct 25, 2013