Anna Shechtman is a student in Yale's dual Ph.D. program in English Literature and Film and Media Studies. Her writing has appeared in Slate and the American Reader. She also writes crossword puzzles for the New York Times.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
FILM NOW: A Roundtable on the Films of 2016
Moderated by LARB film editor Anna Shechtman, the discussion brought together voices from film studies, film criticism, and Hollywood film production....
The Novel in Utopia
An interview with Julia Pierpont....
David Foster Wallace’s Closed Circuit
On 'The End of the Tour'...
Too Faithful to Succeed: On "Inherent Vice"
Anna Shechtman on Paul Thomas Anderson's film adaptation of Thomas Phynchon's novel "Inherent Vice"...
Foucault’s Risks
Writing in the same year that Thatcher was elected, Foucault described a nascent neoliberalism now in its mature state. For three graduate students born in a post-Reagan America, there can be no doubt that Foucault’s thinking describes their present....
