Emmett Rensin

Emmett Rensin is an essayist and contributing editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Iowa City.

The Blathering Superego at the End of History

Emmett Rensin offers a psychoanalysis of managerial liberalism as superego and asks: What happens when the id of liberalism can't be controlled?...

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POLITICS

Punditry and Commitment

Emmett Rensin on the imaginative poverty of today's political punditry....

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POLITICS

Apology: On Jonathan Chait’s Obama

Emmett Rensin reviews Jonathan Chait’s “Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail.”...

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POLITICS

The Memoir’s Hostage: On Sulome Anderson’s “The Hostage’s Daughter”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Exploitation: The Sixth Stage of Grief

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FILM

MUSIC

Controlling the Narrative: Harper Lee and the Stakes of Scandal

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FICTION

Notes on a Native Daughter: Joan Didion at 80

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FICTION

MEMOIR & ESSAY

After the Decision: Ferguson and the Cycle of Trauma

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After the Train Leaves Town: A Report from Ferguson

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A Liturgy of Absolution

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POLITICS

On the Kinds of Love We Fall Into: Polyamory in Theory and Practice

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Philip Seymour Hoffman: The End of Quitting

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