Fiery Heaven, Bastard Earth: The Cosmology of “Game of Thrones”
Jedediah Purdy on why the pleasures of "A Song of Ice and Fire" aren't just narrative and political, but also cosmological....
DEAR TV: GOT
Television Section: LARB’s Collected “Game of Thrones” Coverage
From 2014 until the show’s finale in 2019, LARB’s Dear Television series helped Game of Thrones fans process the stirring, enraging, and disappointing developments of each episode. Now that the show is over, no need to rewatch it — you can relive it instead by rereading Aaron Bady, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, et al. as they ponder each week’s episode, all the way until the final write-up, in which Mesle muses on how she will “let it go.” — LARB Editorial
Fans with Feels: Game of Thrones as Soap Opera
Kristen Warner is here to tell you that Game of Thrones is a soap opera, that you are soap opera fans, and that it's okay....
“Game of Thrones”: Cynicism Rules
DAENERYS TARGARYEN is everyone’s favorite liberator: beautiful, blonde, bold and just. Over three series, she has acquired an army and three fire-breathing dragons, and looks set to take on the corrupt powers of Westeros. But an unnerving seam of cultural ...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Two Swords"
This Week on Dear Television: "Reading Needles," from Sarah Mesle "The Most Fun Show to Talk About on Television," from AHP "Arya Stark, FTW," from Phillip Maciak ¤ Following episode: season 4, episode 2, “The Lion and the Rose.” LARB’s ...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Lion and the Rose"
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Joffrey...
Game of Thrones, Season 4: "Breaker of Chains"
'Do I Have a Champion?'...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Oathkeeper"
Game of Thrones, Cliven Bundy, & the Fantasy of Freedom...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "First of His Name"
Hurt Girls...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Laws of Gods and Men"
Ten Things I Hate About My Favorite Show...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Mockingbird"
Westeros Self-fashioning...
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Mountain and the Viper"
The Trans Oberyn Tipping Point...
