Anna Shechtman is the film editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. A PhD Candidate in English Literature and Film & Media Studies at Yale University, she also writes crossword puzzles for The New Yorker and The New York Times.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

In Which New York City Is Also a Character
Anna Shechtman interviews Joana Avillez and Molly Young, the creators of “D C-T!,” a work in the style of William Steig’s children’s book classics....

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....
