Last Words on Earth

<strong>Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland.</strong>

Aaron Bady

The Bolaño Boom: On Javier Serena’s “Last Words on Earth”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Law and Wooder: On Mare of Easttown

Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, &amp; others

Dear Television

The WandaVision Cul-De-Sac

We Have Always Lived in the Castle: One Month of "The Queen's Gambit"

Dr. Manhattan is a Cop: "Watchmen" and Frantz Fanon

<h4>Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is faculty at USC and Senior Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Prior to arriving at USC, she held post-doctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a nineteenth-century Americanist by training and is interested, generally speaking, in the long history of the American popular novel and in the many ways pop culture can excite, estrange, and surprise.</h4>
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<h4>With Sarah Blackwood, she is co-editor of <a href="http://avidly.org/" target="_blank">Avidly.org</a>. You can <a href="https://twitter.com/sunsetandecho">follow her on Twitter</a>.</h4>

Sarah Mesle

Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Iron Throne"

<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books. </em>He is also the author of a book about religion and early cinema called <em>The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era </em>(Columbia University Press, 2019), and his film, television, and literary criticism has appeared in <em>Slate</em>, <em>Film Quarterly</em>, <em>J19</em>, <em>PMLA</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, and other venues. He is also the co-founder — with Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, and Lili Loofbourow — of the “Dear Television” column. He teaches in the English Department and the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Bells"

Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Last of the Starks"

Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Long Night"

Game of Thrones: Season 8, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"

Game of Thrones: Season 8, "Winterfell"

Who's the Baddie? Captain Marvel in the Age of American Empire

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers