What Was the Sitcom? On Grace Lavery’s “Closures”
Isabel Bartholomew reviews Grace Lavery’s “Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom.”
Isabel Bartholomew reviews Grace Lavery’s “Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom.”
The Lost Codex of Moctezuma (2024), oil on linen, 56 x 76 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches; Installation view, Raul Guerrero: Terra Incógnita , April 25 – June 8, 2024, David Kordansky Gallery, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle. Images courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.
Michael Szalay on twinned productions and other IP shenanigans in “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Constellation,” and “The Signal.”
Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, “Black Meme,” which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in...
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee speaks with Jonathan Alexander about his memoir “Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot.”
Greg Cwik reviews the new compilation of work from writer Harlan Ellison.
“Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color is a sumptuous novel that captures the class, guilt, art, sex, and politics of 1950s Los Angeles” –Mark Haber.
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Stephanie Schoellman reviews Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition.”
Sarah Dowling reviews Jordan Abel’s new novel “Empty Spaces.”
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