Yasmin Nair

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Maurice Sendak on Tomi Ungerer, and The King’s Speech

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 2, 2016

“Like we give a shit whether he stuttered or not. And you know, that’s just dumb. That’s just so dumb.“

My Review of Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 6, 2016

In other words, Gilbert, who has spent half her life as a professional writer, now believes that hers is simply a vocation.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2016

Excerpt: Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Suey Park: Images

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 3, 2016

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.” It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses.

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Patty Duke and the Reservoir of Invented Memory

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 30, 2016

For me, there’s a link between the brute reality of Tamas (as I recall it, and there is some irony in that) and the sugary puffiness of Patty Duke: the connective tissue between what we imagine, what we know, what we wish we knew, and what we would like to imagine.

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Weekly Roundup: March 27, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 27, 2016

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Hail, The Coens!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 19, 2016

It was vivid in its recreation of period interiors, and yet those were what felt distracting: there was too much attention paid to giving attention to detail.

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Room: From Novel to Film

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 18, 2016

Call me a classicist, but years of reading novels tells me when something is off.

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

All Those Mad, Mag Feels

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 17, 2016

Excerpt: Even as a kid, I loved that first, heady rush of anticipation I experienced with every one of them.

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Mr. Holmes and The Case of the Aging Sleuth

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 15, 2016

In Mr. Holmes, we are prompted to ask: What happens to old people who are alone? To be specific, what happens to people whose solitude comes about because the gifts they have or the wounds they bear make it difficult for them to inhabit the world as others might?