Make America Mayberry Again
Grafton TannerThe fictional town of Mayberry provides a clue to the root of our national poison, and show us how we picked the wrong lawman.
The fictional town of Mayberry provides a clue to the root of our national poison, and show us how we picked the wrong lawman.
Television, Film, Gender & Sexuality, Poetry
Jonathan Alexander on Nico Tortorella, gender fluidity, and contemporary culture.
Jorge Cotte takes stock of what HBO's Watchmen is doing, what it thinks it's doing, and what, until last night, we might have thought it was doing, too.
Television, Film, Gender & Sexuality
Chloe Lizotte considers the Manson depictions from the summer of 2019, asking what contradictions of representation and historical memory they share.
Jorge Cotte explores the queasy, wobbly, ethically ambiguous experience of being close to the billionaire children of HBO's "Succession."
Jim Gavin talks about “Lodge 49,” his AMC show set in Long Beach.
Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But
In Studio Interviews Molly Ringwald on "When it Happens to You" Skylight Reading Series: Episode 5: Adrian Tomine discusses his "
Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But
In Studio Interviews Molly Ringwald on "When it Happens to You" Skylight Reading Series: Episode 5: Adrian Tomine discusses his "
A VIDEO REVIEW by Clara Mokri.
Cecil Castellucci talks to LARB about reading and writing Young Adult fiction, and about the very good advice she got from
Clara Mokri, one of our student correspondents, on the book and the film.
Leslie Kendall Dye views Hulu's series, The Act, through the lens of motherhood, daughterhood, and inter-generational trauma.
Sophia Stewart finds a lot to like in “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution” by Emily Nussbaum.
Anastasia Berg considers confession and confessors from Saint Augustine to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag."
Libby Lenkinski explores the progressive political potential of "Shtisel," a TV series about Israel's ultra-Orthodox community.