Michael Szalay

Michael Szalay is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party (2012), New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (2000), and the forthcoming Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television.

iPhone TV: A Conversation with Kim Jee-woon

Michael Szalay asks Kim Jee-woon about his new Apple TV+ series, “Dr. Brain.”...

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Streaming Enthusiasm and the Industrious Family Drama

Michael Szalay on what the rise of streaming platforms and their dark family dramas tell us about the US flagging empire....

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TELEVISION

The Incorporation Artist

IN DANA SPIOTTA’S Stone Arabia, Denise Kranis tries to convince her brother Nik to move in with her. He’s broke and his health is failing, and Denise can no longer continue to support him. He dismisses the proposition, and ...

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Dana Spiotta interviewed by Michael Szalay

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