Playing “Hopscotch” with Julio Cortázar
Fifty years after it first published, Cortazar's novel is as innovative as the game from which it draws its names
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 5:30 PM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books, Books, Novels
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The accidental genius of “8 1/2″
Fellini's iconic film about a director in the throes of creative crisis celebrates its 50th anniversary this month
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 4:57 PM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books, Movies
Who was Roberto Bolaño?
An exhibition of the "2666" author's personal effects offers new clues to the man behind the literary legend
Monday, Jun 24, 2013 9:41 PM UTCEntertainment Roberto Bolaño, exhibit
Chasing the dragon with Tao Lin
For the disaffected hero of "Taipei," drug use is less about changing the world than it is about adjusting to it
Saturday, Jun 22, 2013 5:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books
E.L. Konigsburg brought the city to the ‘burbs
The late author invited children to explore urban culture in "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"
Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 5:48 PM UTCEntertainment
Is there a “liberal bias” in academia?
Sociologist Neil Gross dispels the myth that college campuses are overrun with lefty East Coast intellectuals
Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 6:52 PM UTC 67Entertainment LA Review of Books, Books
Colum McCann spins out
The leaden "Transatlantic" suggests he's exhausted the themes that made "Let the Great World Spin" so readable
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 7:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books, Novels
Colum McCann: Fiction helps us keep faith in humanity
The author discusses the thin line between history and fiction, and how Frederick Douglass anticipated Obama
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 5:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books, Novels
Mailer, Styron and Auden, all in the same publication
Robert Silvers reflects on the 50th anniversary of the New York Review of Books -- and how it's managed to survive
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 6:17 PM UTCMedia LA Review of Books
Luhrmann’s “Gatsby” is like “crayoning Donald Duck into ‘The Last Supper’”
Fitzgerald scholars debate the merits and many foibles of the "Moulin Rouge" director's glitzy new take
Monday, Jun 10, 2013 6:24 PM UTC 11Oscars LA Review of Books
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up”
While the "Gatsby" author was wary of Hollywood glitz and glamour, he wrote some of his most enduring fiction there
Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 3:00 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books
American dream deferred indefinitely
Income inequality is now as high as it's been since the Great Depression, and the middle class is nearly extinct
Friday, May 31, 2013 5:20 PM UTC 87Business LA Review of Books
Liberace, gay rights pioneer?
He never came out of the closet, but his act was subtly subversive -- and paved the way for future drag movements
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:20 PM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books, liberace
“Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight
Writer/editor George Plimpton was an elitist everyman, blending his upper-crust roots with a populist sensibility
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:05 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books, Books
Is “Nashville” the most feminist show on TV?
Country music isn't known for its progressive sexual politics, but the ABC drama is surprisingly subversive
Sunday, May 26, 2013 5:00 PM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books, TV, nashville
SAT’s right answers are all wrong
Retaking the test alongside my daughters, I learned (the hard way) that testmakers devalue critical thinking
Monday, May 20, 2013 9:11 PM UTC 122Life LA Review of Books, SAT
James Franco: “I really felt I was in conversation with Faulkner”
The writer, actor and filmmaker discusses the challenges and subtle pleasures of adapting "As I Lay Dying"
Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books
Waiting for Terrence Malick
The celebrated director is notoriously private. Does it matter that we know so little about him?
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:21 PM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books
Self-help hits rock Botton
Philosopher Alain De Botton's new how-to series isn't just shallow, it's downright unhelpful
Monday, May 13, 2013 7:58 PM UTCLife LA Review of Books
Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon?
A new introduction to "The Classic Horror Stories" reexamines the novelist's racism, nihilism and pulp brilliance
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:07 PM UTC 25Life LA Review of Books
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