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ART MATTERS NOW—12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Greg Allen Reviews Artists in the Americas in 2005

Art & Architecture

ART MATTERS NOW—12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Greg Allen Reviews Artists in the Americas in 2005

Greg Allen

Greg Allen looks at three artists who exposed their respective experiences within Latin American, immigrant, and US cultures.

LACMA, Part III: The Way Forward

Art & Architecture

LACMA, Part III: The Way Forward

Joseph Giovannini

Joseph Giovannini concludes his analysis of Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA.

Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir

Memoir & Essay

Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir

Patricia Grisafi

Elizabeth Wurtzel changed how we think about memoir — and mental illness.

LACMA, Part II: Spamming the Public

Art & Architecture

LACMA, Part II: Spamming the Public

Joseph Giovannini

Joseph Giovannini continues his analysis of Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA.

The Death Drive at 100

Philosophy & Critical Theory

The Death Drive at 100

Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks on the centennial of Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle.”

Confessions of a Weapon: On Being a TV Chat Show Host in Iran

Around the World, Nonfiction, Politics

Confessions of a Weapon: On Being a TV Chat Show Host in Iran

Paul Ingram

Former talk show host Paul Ingram talks about his time in Tehran.

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Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post”

Ron Rosenbaum

Ron Rosenbaum on what the media can learn from the prescient "Munich Post."

Kompromat: Or, Revelations from the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts

Nonfiction, Politics

Kompromat: Or, Revelations from the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts

Maya Gurantz

In 2016 or early 2017, Paul Manafort’s 32-year-old daughter’s cell phone was hacked. What do the texts reveal, and why aren't we talking about them?

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But


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Room After Room in “The Report”

Film, Politics

Room After Room in “The Report”

Hilary Plum

Hilary Plum considers "The Report," Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s "Guantánamo Diary," and who gets to depict torture.

The Unchanging Joe Biden

Politics

The Unchanging Joe Biden

Matt Hanson

A portrait of Joe Biden’s inner life can be seen in a book written 32 years ago.

Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”

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Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor explores the historical and cinematic resonances of Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, “Motherless Brooklyn.”

LACMA, Part I: Going Rogue

Art & Architecture

LACMA, Part I: Going Rogue

Joseph Giovannini

Joseph Giovannini on Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA, which are even worse than you think.

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