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How to Read a Prophecy
On 'Voyager' and 'Address' by Srikanth Reddy and Elizabeth Willis
Jennifer ChangJul 14, 2012
The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
Matvei YankelevichJul 13, 2012
In Hell, “We Shall Be Free”: On “Breaking Bad”
Walter White's Rebellion
Albert Wu, Michelle KuoJul 13, 2012
Sculpting in Time: Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky
On Geoff Dyer and Andrei Tarkovsky, 'cinema's great poet of stillness'
Jacob MikanowskiJul 12, 2012
The Imagination of Norman Manea
Reginald GibbonsJul 11, 2012
The Nature of Cinderella
There is no one authoritative tale of Cinderella, only a hall of mirrors...
Marie RutkoskiJul 9, 2012
Old Media: On Aaron Sorkin
The writer is king on television, in part because Aaron Sorkin staged a coup.
Phillip MaciakJul 8, 2012
LARBlog: Castellucci’s Class Notes
Free Period
Cecil CastellucciJul 7, 2012
My Stephen King Problem: A Snob’s Notes
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
Dwight AllenJul 3, 2012
The Memory Hole Riot and Rodney King
Rest in Peace, Rodney.
Jervey TervalonJul 2, 2012
What’s Wrong With a Happy Childhood?
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
Cylin BusbyJul 2, 2012
Salvage Operations
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
Rob LathamJul 1, 2012
Discoveries: Franzen, Beachy-Quick, & Baldwin
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
Susan Salter ReynoldsJun 30, 2012
Supreme Hubris: Theories of Judicial Activism
The inevitability of politics.
Don FranzenJun 29, 2012
- Law
Five Thrillers for the Summer
All thriller, no filler
Jeff AyersJun 27, 2012
- Fiction
Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
Joseph LuzziJun 26, 2012
- Art & Architecture