Endless Culture Wars: On Kliph Nesteroff’s “Outrageous”
Chris Yogerst reviews Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”...
Chris Yogerst reviews Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”...
Chris YogerstDec 1
Lisa Darms speaks with filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin about her award-winning new documentary “Maria Schneider, 1983.”...
Lisa DarmsNov 30
Julia Sirmons compares three adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando”: “Freak Orlando,” “Orlando,” and “Orlando: My Political Biography.”...
Julia SirmonsNov 25
Yangyang Cheng reviews Joshua Kurlantzick’s “Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World” and Michael Berry’s “Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke.”...
Yangyang ChengNov 18
Slava Greenberg looks at the legacy of Netflix’s series “Sex Education” in light of its finale...
Slava GreenbergNov 16
Hannah Bonner looks at Elisabeth Subrin’s documentary, “Maria Schneider, 1983,” alongside Vanessa Schneider’s memoir, “My Cousin Maria Schneider.”...
Hannah BonnerNov 9
Grant Sharples reviews the new music documentary “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.”...
Grant SharplesNov 8
Theresa Lin pays tribute to the at times revolting charm of filmmaker John Waters, whose unlikely exhibition is now on view at the Academy Museum....
Theresa LinNov 8
Marlena Williams and S. Trimble discuss their shared work on the queer resonances of “The Exorcist.”...
Marlena Williams, S. TrimbleOct 27
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Corina Zappia considers the state of travel for single women....
Corina ZappiaOct 27
Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”...
Chris YogerstOct 26
Brandon R. Grafius reviews Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work.”...
Brandon R. GrafiusOct 25
Anne Anlin Cheng recalls her first, foreign Barbie experience....
Anne Anlin ChengOct 20
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Meghan Racklin considers the life and imperfectly rendered image of Empress Elisabeth of Austria....
Meghan RacklinOct 20
Jason Namey takes another look at the Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” for its 25th anniversary....
Jason NameyOct 19
Alessandro Camon discusses the role storytelling played in the success of the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike in Hollywood....
Alessandro CamonOct 15
Amidst a new wave of conservative panic about child trafficking, Evan McGarvey revisits Ben Affleck’s “Gone Baby Gone.”...
Evan McGarveyOct 13
Eliana Rozinov examines the figure of Midge as a mythical phenomenon, a pregnant doll, and a variation of the “promising young woman” trope....
Eliana RozinovOct 12
Jerrine Tan visits a LOVOT robotics lab and is unexpectedly enchanted....
Jerrine TanOct 4
Emily Tamkin documents her Jiří Menzel binge and explains how and why his films hold up so well today....
Emily TamkinSep 28
Samuel Fury Childs Daly reviews artist Matthew Barney’s new film “Secondary.”...
Samuel Fury Childs DalySep 27
Brynn Shiovitz reviews two new books on screen dance, Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers: Time & the Straight White Male Dancer” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era.”...
Brynn ShiovitzSep 22
“Fleischer’s Animated News,” an animation industry comic from the 1930s, satirized working conditions similar to those motivating the Hollywood strikes today, as Paul Morton discusses....
Paul MortonSep 19
Ariella Garmaise reviews Alissa Bennett’s compilation of celebrity-themed zines, collectively titled “Taxidermist’s Handbook.”...
Ariella GarmaiseSep 13