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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Patty Duke and the Reservoir of Invented Memory

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

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Hail, The Coens!

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.  

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

Room: From Novel to Film

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

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

All Those Mad, Mag Feels

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

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Mr. Holmes and The Case of the Aging Sleuth

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Politics

If I Cannot Snark At Your Revolution

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Weekly Roundup: March 8, 2016

There was actually a brief period in winter when I fell into a deep funk, found myself crying on the phone with a friend, and seriously considered giving up writing for good, because just getting people to even respond to pleas for payment had become so dispiriting.

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Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem

The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.