Articles Tweeted
Newest Picks
When the Lights Shut Off: Kendrick Lamar and the Decline of the Black Blues Narrative by by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Images by Karim Davis The sound of the blues is pre–Civil Rights. It’s oppression. In high school I had a friend who asked me why I played the blues, that black people don’t play…
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
LENGTH: 2 minutes (511 words)
5
RETWEETs
Brian Patrick Eha on Religio Medici and Urne Burial
THE MODERN READER might come to Sir Thomas Browne as a foreigner comes to a forbidding country, about which he has heard rumors of wealth and splendor. He might come, say, as Lafcadio Hearn came to…
AUTHOR:Sir Thomas Browne
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
LENGTH: 1 minutes (452 words)
3
RETWEETs
James Santel on Farther Away
WHEN JONATHAN FRANZEN PUBLISHED his first essay collection, How to Be Alone, in 2002, he was not yet the nation's foremost novelist. He hadn't appeared on the cover of Time, hadn't been invited to…
AUTHOR:Jonathan Franzen
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4008 words)
5
RETWEETs
Twitter / ?
If you typed this address yourself, make sure you typed it exactly right. Or if you can, copy the address and paste it into your web browser. Back to Twitter
SOURCE:t.co
29
RETWEETs
Los Angeles Review of Books -
REVIEWS REVIEWS The Skeptical GazeDoing A D'AgataPeople Who Eat PeopleHarrowing IdealismAfter the LiberationVIDEO: Michael Tolkin on 'Return of the Player'Greeneland
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
2
RETWEETs
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
PHILLIP MACIAK on AMC’s Mad Men. Image courtesy AMC Toward the end of “Tomorrowland,” the final episode of the fourth season of AMC’s Mad Men, Don Draper (the girl-, booze-,…
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5798 words)
21
RETWEETs
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
MICHAELANGELO MATOSon two dirty books. Collage made from photographs found in Taschen’s Big Book of Pussy Happy Valentine’s DayMike EdisonDirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs, and…
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3565 words)
2
RETWEETs
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
ERIC BEEN on John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulpheadand a conversation with Sullivan by MICHAEL GOETZMAN. Collage Illustration © Lisa Jane PerskyJohn Jeremiah Sullivan Pulphead: Essays Farrar,…
SOURCE:lareviewofbooks.org
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6023 words)
8
RETWEETs