Avidly Reads Screen Time

Jorge Cotte is a writer living in Chicago. His work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Complex, and Remezcla. When not writing, he is cooking, binging, and <a href="https://twitter.com/FranziaFanon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">tweeting.</a>

Jorge Cotte

Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland.

Aaron Bady

<h4>Lili Loofbourow is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley working on Milton and 17th-century theories of eating and reading. She tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer">@millicentsomer</a>, blogs at <a href="http://www.excrementalvirtue.com/">Excremental Virtue</a>, and writes TV criticism over at <a href="http://www.deartelevision.wordpress.com/">Dear Television</a> along with Jane Hu, Phillip Maciak, and Evan Kindley. You can sometimes find her at The Awl, The Hairpin, and The New Inquiry.</h4>

Lili Loofbourow

Jane Hu is a critic who lives in Los Angeles.

Jane Hu

Phillip Maciak’s “Avidly Reads Screen Time”: A Symposium

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

Dear Television

Pathos Porn About Climate Change: On Scott Z. Burns’s “Extrapolations”

Police and Thieves: On Tony Gilroy’s “Andor”

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at&nbsp;the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has&nbsp;appeared in the&nbsp;Times Literary Supplement,&nbsp;The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books,&nbsp;London Review of Books, The Paris Review,&nbsp;The Guardian,&nbsp;Granta,&nbsp;World Literature Today,&nbsp;The Yale Review, The Hopkins Review,&nbsp;New England Review,&nbsp;Harvard Review,&nbsp;Jewish Quarterly,&nbsp;and other journals. He is the author of&nbsp;Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934&nbsp;(Brill, 2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018), Isaac Babel’s&nbsp;Red Cavalry&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2015) and&nbsp;Odessa Stories&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2016), Maxim Osipov’s Rock, Paper, Scissors, and&nbsp;Other Stories (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson), and Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees (MacLehose Press, 2020). He is also the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2016), and co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of&nbsp;The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry&nbsp;(Penguin Classics, 2015). His website is&nbsp;<a href="http://bdralyuk.wordpress.com/">bdralyuk.wordpress.com</a>. On Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/borisdralyuk">@BorisDralyuk</a>. (Photograph by Jennifer Croft.)

Boris Dralyuk

Christian Lorentzen&nbsp;is an essayist and critic based in Brooklyn. He is a regular contributor to the&nbsp;London Review of Books, Bookforum, and&nbsp;Harper’s&nbsp;Magazine&nbsp;and a contributing writer for&nbsp;Air Mail.

Christian Lorentzen

Julian Lucas&nbsp;is a writer and critic based in Brooklyn. He is an associate editor at&nbsp;Cabinet&nbsp;and a contributing editor at&nbsp;The Ballot.&nbsp;His work has appeared in&nbsp;The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Vanity Fair&nbsp;and&nbsp;The New York Times Book Review.&nbsp;

Julian Lucas

<h4>Ismail Muhammad is a story editor at The New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Bookforum, and other venues. He lives in Oakland.</h4>

Ismail Muhammad

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Under Review”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Last Words on Earth

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

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 postdoctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a 19th-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" rel="noopener noreferrer">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 Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;His essays have appeared in&nbsp;Slate,&nbsp;The New Republic, and other venues, and he's co-founder of the Dear Television column. He's the author of&nbsp;The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era&nbsp;(Columbia University Press, 2019) and&nbsp;Avidly Reads Screen Time&nbsp;(New York University Press, 2023). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>