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CULTURE
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Mind-Boggling Lyrical Complexity: On Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language”
Aaron Peck reviews Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language.”...
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Mind-Boggling Lyrical Complexity: On Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language”
Aaron Peck reviews Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language.”...
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“There’s No Such Thing as the True Self”: Camilla Taylor’s Art of Deception
Yael Friedman on the slyly brilliant work of L.A.-based artist Camilla Taylor....
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“There’s No Such Thing as the True Self”: Camilla Taylor’s Art of Deception
Yael Friedman on the slyly brilliant work of L.A.-based artist Camilla Taylor....
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Victim of His Own Celebrity: On Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks”
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”...
Aug 7
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Victim of His Own Celebrity: On Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks”
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”...
Aug 7
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Victim of His Own Celebrity: On Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks”
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”...
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Victim of His Own Celebrity: On Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks”
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”...
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Plummeting Upstairs: On Joseph Sassoon's “The Sassoons”
Pratinav Anil finds much to admire in Joseph Sassoon’s history of his own storied merchant family....
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Plummeting Upstairs: On Joseph Sassoon's “The Sassoons”
Pratinav Anil finds much to admire in Joseph Sassoon’s history of his own storied merchant family....
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L.A., LAtinx Style: A Conversation Between Natalia Molina, Juan De Lara, George J. Sánchez, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
A panel at the 2022 LA Times Festival of Books addressed the past and future of Los Angeles’s Latinx neighborhoods....
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L.A., LAtinx Style: A Conversation Between Natalia Molina, Juan De Lara, George J. Sánchez, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
A panel at the 2022 LA Times Festival of Books addressed the past and future of Los Angeles’s Latinx neighborhoods....
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“The Leprosy of the Soul in Our Time”: On the European Origins of the “Great Replacement” Theory
Richard Wolin excavates the roots of the right-wing conspiracy theory that liberal elites are trying to “replace” white Americans with nonwhites....
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“The Leprosy of the Soul in Our Time”: On the European Origins of the “Great Replacement” Theory
Richard Wolin excavates the roots of the right-wing conspiracy theory that liberal elites are trying to “replace” white Americans with nonwhites....
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“Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich’s Fugues Less So”: On Elizabeth Wilson’s “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia”
Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”...
Aug 4
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“Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich’s Fugues Less So”: On Elizabeth Wilson’s “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia”
Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”...
Aug 4
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“Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich’s Fugues Less So”: On Elizabeth Wilson’s “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia”
Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”...
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“Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich’s Fugues Less So”: On Elizabeth Wilson’s “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia”
Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”...
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The Making of a Prophet
Pradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend....
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The Making of a Prophet
Pradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend....
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What Happened?: On Dimitar Bechev’s “Turkey Under Erdogan”
Kaya Genç assesses Dimitar Bechev’s indictment of Turkish democracy....
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What Happened?: On Dimitar Bechev’s “Turkey Under Erdogan”
Kaya Genç assesses Dimitar Bechev’s indictment of Turkish democracy....
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The Dark Side of the New Hollywood: On Jon Lewis’s “Road Trip to Nowhere”
Chris Yogerst reviews Jon Lewis’s book about Hollywood in the ’60s and ’70s, “Road Trip to Nowhere.”...
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The Dark Side of the New Hollywood: On Jon Lewis’s “Road Trip to Nowhere”
Chris Yogerst reviews Jon Lewis’s book about Hollywood in the ’60s and ’70s, “Road Trip to Nowhere.”...
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The Weather in “Passing”
Bharat Jayram Venkat looks at Nella Larssen’s novella, “Passing,” along with its film adaptation, to articulate a theory of “weather fiction.”...
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The Weather in “Passing”
Bharat Jayram Venkat looks at Nella Larssen’s novella, “Passing,” along with its film adaptation, to articulate a theory of “weather fiction.”...
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Coens in Transition: Two Books on the Coen Brothers
Matthew Sorrento compares two recent books on the work of the Coen brothers....
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Coens in Transition: Two Books on the Coen Brothers
Matthew Sorrento compares two recent books on the work of the Coen brothers....
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Love Me Like a Rock
Marnie Goodfriend recalls the end of her relationship with a verbally abusive boyfriend....
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Love Me Like a Rock
Marnie Goodfriend recalls the end of her relationship with a verbally abusive boyfriend....
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Gender Crusades
Paul R. Abramson hails Frans de Waal's "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist."...
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Gender Crusades
Paul R. Abramson hails Frans de Waal's "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist."...
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