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The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film
Plimpton: The Movie
Leo BraudyMay 26, 2013
Recapturing the World with Karl Ove Knausgaard
On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 24, 2013
When Love Doesn’t Last: Richard Linklater’s “Before Midnight”
On Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight"
May 24, 2013
A Poem for President Drone
Obama's drone program, journalism and ideology, and 'the role of the half-assed political poet.'
May 23, 2013
You’ve Got the Wrong Song: “Nashville” and Country Music Feminism
On ABC's "Nashville" and country music feminism
May 22, 2013
Syria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then Fading
On Omar Souleyman
May 20, 2013
Carousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina
Power wars and populism in Argentina
Tomas HachardMay 19, 2013
Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-ha
A primer on the South Korean novelist
Colin MarshallMay 18, 2013
If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology
The SAT is an affront to intellectual complexity
Monica CohenMay 17, 2013
Conversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"
Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder"
Jon BaskinMay 12, 2013
Hollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the 20-Year Hiatus That Wasn't
Michael NordineMay 12, 2013
How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life
Alain de Botton’s School of Life
May 11, 2013
Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece
On Poetry and Greece
Stephanos PapadopoulosMay 10, 2013
Marx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing Consumer
Anonymous JournalistMay 10, 2013
Untucking “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Virginia Woolf, camp, and queer identity
May 6, 2013
Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer
Brian Kim StefansMay 5, 2013