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Enchantment Dispelled: On Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”
Ilana TeitelbaumJan 1, 2013
Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad
Aaron ShulmanJan 1, 2013
Let Us Not to Our Readers Condescend
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
Joe Amato, Kass FleisherDec 31, 2012
Between The Red Lines: An American Writer in China
Creativity and its consequences in China
Amelia GrayDec 30, 2012
In the Neighborhood: Tom Waits
Tom Waits's Los Angeles
Alex HarveyDec 29, 2012
Obesity as Metaphor
Four new novels aim to constitute a literature of physicality
Hannah RosefieldDec 27, 2012
Victor Hugo Sings Again: On 'Les Misérables'
'Les Misérables' — of the zeitgeist since 1862
David EhrensteinDec 25, 2012
Oscar and “Les Miz”
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical
Laurie WinerDec 25, 2012
The Ballad Continues: On Nan Goldin
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
Kate WolfDec 23, 2012
What Happens When You Wait
How to make sense of such unspeakable loss?
Dinah LenneyDec 21, 2012
Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot
On 'Hitchcock' and the enduring mysteries of 'Psycho'
Jerome ChristensenDec 20, 2012
Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, 20 Years On
On the thriving, New York–based small press
Jeremy GlazierDec 20, 2012
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
Second books of poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
Lisa Russ SpaarDec 15, 2012
Film History: Columnists and Historians Assess Spielberg’s “Lincoln”
This story of emancipation is woefully incomplete. How could it be otherwise?
Kelly CandaeleDec 14, 2012
Revolution Now? The Family Romances of Post-Apocalyptic Media
2012 was a great year for the post-apocalypse.
Jonathan AlexanderDec 10, 2012
Nothing More American: On James M. Cain
On the noir master's place in American fiction's 'shadow pantheon'
Steve EricksonDec 10, 2012