Leo Braudy is a Professor of English and History at the University of Southern California.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic....

Acting and Impersonation
Leo Braudy on Acting Otherness and the Academy Awards....

The Nature of War: A 10-Best List from Leo Braudy
The Ten Best Books on Warfare...

Pete Seeger was no Llewyn Davis
Pete, I have heard you play that melody for all of twenty years.” “Fifteen, but who’s counting?” — Lee Hays and ...

The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film
Plimpton: The Movie...
Leo Braudy on the Hollywood Sign
Leo Braudy discusses the Hollywood Sign and what it means as an icon, as a historical artifact, as a monument, as ...

The Time of Our Lives: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads....
