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January 21, 2012: Snow Day "Team The Best Team" Doomtree "Colorless Sky" Desire "Swerve..." Shabazz Palaces "Cop Killer" John Maus "Bill Hickman at Home" Bad…
"The actors remain actors"
Broadly speaking, there are two ways to shoot a sitcom. There’s the traditional multi-camera style of “I Love Lucy,” “The Cosby Show” and “Seinfeld” —…
Reanimation Library at MoMA
The New Inquiry is proud to announce that Reanimation Library, the project of our contributor and friend Andrew Beccone, will be temporarily relocated to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the Print/Out exhibition, part of Print Studio from January 23 until March 9.
Un(der)known Writers: Martin Luther King Jr.
"While he was peacefully snoring up on the mountain, a great revolution was taking place in the world - indeed, a revolution which would, at points, change the course of history. And Rip Van Winkle knew nothing about it; he was asleep."
Un(der)known Writers: Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan was born Helen Woods in Cannes, France. She perceived herself as deeply unloved.
Art, Work, and Refusal
Sara Wookey performing “Trio A” (1966) by Yvonne Rainer at VIVA! Performance Festival, Montreal Photo by Guy L’Hereux I participated in an audition on November…
Don't Stop Beliebing
If it were opportunistic, it would have a better beat. It’s so earnest and guileless that it’s completely unappealing. It really shows how pointless endorsing Occupy Wall Street is as a gesture. You also can’t dance to it.
Today: International Day of Action
Today: International Day of Action
Redefining the Right Wing
Let me begin by agreeing that political conservatism is typically born in reaction and backlash...Postwar conservatism in America has certainly been defined by a series of reactions against rapid or large-scale social and political changes.
Money, Sex and Tweens
Two YA novelists discuss the gender politics of literature’s biggest growth industry John M. Cusick (JC) is an editor at Armchair/Shotgun and literary agent specializing in YA…
Youth is Never Reactionary
Youth is never reactionary; youth is progressive in time and hence always in the avant garde, hence never wrong in spirit, hence never to be…
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lareviewofbooks: Jonathan Lethem, on his obsession with an immortal literary character. 1. There once was a boy who fell in love with Norman Mailer, a writer who…