THE TERM TVIII has been used in television studies to describe the state of television in the 21st century. This …
Superheroes and TV IV: Possibilities and pitfalls of contemporary television
November 2013
Art and Globalization
By Tong Lam In recent years, the number of applicants to Chinese art schools has increased dramatically. Earlier this year, …
Steampunk Dracula
SCIENCE FICTION television this season continues to work through the anxieties of our contemporary moment in coded ways, from Revolution’s …
LARB’s Naked Bookseller presents: Libros Schmibros
The Los Angeles Review of Books talks with David Kipen, Colleen Jaurretche, and Andrew Vasquez of Libros Schmibros. The Boyle …
Censorship, Translation and the Chinese Market
“To me the choice was easy…I thought it was better to have 90 percent of the book available here than …
There Will Be Peplum: On the Television Uniform
Dear Television, WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my favorite show was Star Trek: The Next Generation. There are many reasons for this …
The Fastest Show on TV: On The Good Wife
A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, in this very column, I made an off-hand claim that The Good Wife is “the best …
The Death of the Humanities?
By Monica F. Cohen I spent much of the summer exchanging links with friends to articles documenting the death of …