Art/Architecture
Alec Ash, “The Last Rant”; on Ai Weiwei’s electronic provocations (9/13/2011)
Nancy Barnes, “The Intimate Art”; Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, ed. Sarah Greenough (8/11/2011)
Jeff Chang and Brendan Boyle, “Anticipation and Absorption” (1/20/2012)
Dana Buntrock, “The Eyes Think”; on Katsura and Ishimoto Yasuhiro (7/7/2011)
Jeffrey Burbank, “Tales from the Platinum Triangle”; on the great houses of La-La Land (2/21/2012)
Jonathan Crisman, “Details, Details”; on architect Edward R. Ford’s grand obsession (3/23/2012)
Thomas S. Hines, “Creative Destruction”; on the architectural legacy of World War II (9/6/2011)
Ben Lerner, “Where the Action Was”; on Abstract Expressionist New York (5/19/2011)
Pete L’Official, “Surface Tensions”; on José Parlá and Mark Bradford (9/10/2011)
Pete L’Official, “Words, Words, Words”; on Glenn Ligon (11/1/2011)
Peter Plagens, “Another L.A. Look”; on Pacific Standard Time and the story of Los Angeles art (11/11/2011)
Robert Polito, “Keeping the Eye Moving”; on Patricia Patterson (6/16/2011)
Richard Prince, “Flea Market”; on Miroslav Tichý (4/21/2011)
Cameron Shaw, “Object Relations”; on making and showing art while black in Los Angeles (12/18/2011)
Brian Sholis, “Looking Promiscuously”; on Bruce Hainley’s experimental art criticism (10/20/2011)

Biography/Autobiography
Eric Been, “Everywhere and Nowhere”; on John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead (2/10/2012)
Laurie Benenson, “Legacy”; on George Bush’s Decision Points (7/2/2011)
Mike Davis, “The Ghost of Wrath, Episode 1: Broom of Destruction”; on Harrison Gray Otis (7/16/2011)
Loren Glass, “Counter-Culture Colophon”; on Barney Rosset and the history of Grove Press (9/7/2011)
Loren Glass, “Counter-Culture Colophon Part 2”; Grove Press in the 1960s (9/30/2011)
Judith Freeman, “Greeneland”; on Pico Iyer’s The Man Within My Head (2/3/2012)
Leslie S. Klinger, “Highly Irregular”; on the cult of Sherlock Holmes (2/16/2012)
Chris Kraus, “Posthumous”; on Simone Weil (5/31/2011)
Rob Latham, “The Exegete”; on the career of Philip K. Dick (2/24/2012)
Greil Marcus, “Heart of Stone”; on Keith Richards’ Life (5/5/2011)
Merrill Markoe “Dog Poetry”; on Susan Orlean’s biography and cultural history of Rin Tin Tin (10/10/2011)
Sharon Mizota, “Art Therapy”; on Yayoi Kusama’s autobiography (1/25/2012)
Lindsay Reckson, “Back to the Garden”; on Jane Shaw’s Octavia, Daughter of God (1/11/2012)
David Roth, “Household Saint”; on Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente (9/15/2011)
Kathryn Schulz, “Life of the Party”; on Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live (4/25/2011)

Book Culture
Sven Birkerts, “The Room and the Elephant” (6/7/2011)
Joseph Campana, “Criticism of Criticism of Criticism”; on Marjorie Garber, Helen Vendler, Marjorie Perloff, and Harold Bloom (10/4/2011)
John Clute, “Margaret Atwood and the S and F Words”; on her infamous ambivalence about squids in space (11/27/2011)
Ben Ehrenreich, “The Death of the Book” (4/18/2011)
William Flesch, “Criticism of Criticism of Criticism”; on Stanley Fish and Robert Pippin (10/4/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, “Advertisements for Norman Mailer”; on his obsession with an immortal literary character (10/3/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, “My Disappointment Critic”; on being reviewed by James Wood (11/7/2011)
Tom Lutz, “Future Tense”; on publishing (8/6/2011)
E.C. McCarthy and Lisa C. Hickman, “Literary Transactions and their Vicissitudes”; a response to Glen David Gold’s piece on Faulkner and Joan Williams (12/11/2011)
Steffie Nelson, “L.A. Woman”; on Eve Babitz’s Hollywood
Howard A. Rodman, “The Mysterious Island”; on French bookseller Michel Roethel (6/11/2011)
Renate Stendhal, “Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator?”; on Gertrude Stein’s latest revival and her wartime years (12/17/2011)

Columns
Audrey Bilger, The Dial: “The Marriage Prop”; on Proposition 8 (2/12/2012)
Jef Dietrich, “Feeding the Poor” (3/3/2012)
Glen David Gold, The Dial; “Transactions along the Mississippi Delta” (11/29/2011)
F.X. Feeney, The Dial; “Between the Georges” (12/4/2011)
Joy Horowitz and Deborah Frost, The Dial; “Deconstructing Wendy” (11/26/2011)
William Dean Howells, The Dial: “The Lyrical Essay” (3/18/2012)
John Kaye, “The Dial: Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson” (1/15/2012)
, The Dial: “What the Matter With Kansas?”; a conversation between Ben Lerner and Cyrus Console (2/26/2012)
Joseph Peschel, The Dial: “Another 100,000 Galleys” (3/17/2012)
Louise Steinman, “The Dial: Appreciation for James Hillman” (1/29/2012)
Matthew Specktor, “The Dial: Hijacking Ourselves” (1/14/2012)
Jeffrey Tayler, “The Dial: An Unknown Man”; on Ramón Del Valle-Inclán’s Autumn and Winter Sonatas (2/19/2012)
Antoine Wilson, The Dial; “Notes on Hack” (11/20/2011)
Cullen Gallagher, “The Criminal Kind”; on Swierczynski, Starr, Abbott, Gran, Spillane, and Collins (9/17/2011)
Cullen Gallagher, “The Criminal Kind”; on Faust, Bruen, Gorman, and Keene (11/5/2011)
Cullen Gallagher, “The Criminal Kind”; on Hinkson, Rector, Coleman, Glynn, and Whittington (1/23/2012)
Catherine Liu, “Antielitism Left and Right” (1/8/2012)
Richard Rayner on Georges Simenon (2/18/2012)
Richard Rayner on Rudyard Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills and The Man Who Would Be King (8/27/2011)
Richard Rayner on Arthur Machen’s The White People and Other Weird Stories (10/8/2011)
Richard Rayner on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (10/29/2011)
Susan Salter Reynolds, “Trampoline Heart”; on Gail Jones, Krys Lee, and Lars Iyer (3/24/2012)
Susan Salter Reynolds, “Bringing Up Babies”; on Druckerman, Delius, and Hassman (2/25/2012)
Susan Salter Reynolds on Ramona Ausubel, Lee Stein, and Gin Phillips (2/11/2012)
Susan Salter Reynolds, “Gardens” (1/21/2012)
Susan Salter Reynolds on JJ Sullivan, Jane Smiley, and Edna O’Brien (1/7/2012)
Susan Salter Reynolds on Christopher Merrill, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Robert Vivian (12/10/2011)
Susan Salter Reynolds, “Three Novels”; on Lily Tuck, Michael Cunningham, and Maile Meloy. (11/19/2011)
Susan Salter Reynolds on Mary Romero, Mary Clearman Blew,
André Aciman, and Jonnie Hughes (10/22/2011)
Susan Salter Reynolds on Dan Fante, Beryl Bainbridge, and Alexandra Fuller (9/3/2011)
Susan Salter Reynolds on Ben Loory, Mary Jane Nealon, Frances Moore Lappé, and Henri Cole (9/24/2011)
John Steppling, “Notes on Theatre” (12/31/2011)

Comics
Jenna Brager ,”Postmodern Prometheus”; on Richard Sala’s The Hidden (10/31/2011)
Joe Carducci, “Sons and Fathers”; on Frank Miller’s Batman (7/19/2011)
Howard Chaykin, “Aberrant Behavior”; on Alex Toth (7/20/2011)
Brian Doherty, “Illustrated History”; on the art of curating comics (8/30/2011)
Jeet Heer, “The Ceiling Worker”; on Ben Katchor’s The Cardboard Valise (6/28/2011)
Joe McCulloch, “Let Us Compare Terrologies”; on the grisly joys of pre-Code horror comics (10/31/2011)
Evie Nagy, “Heroine Chic”; on Miss Fury (1/12/2012)

Cultural Studies
Eric Been, “Everywhere and Nowhere”; on John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead (2/10/2012)
Steven Brint, “The Educational Lottery”; on four kinds of heretics attacking the gospel of education (11/15/2011)
Colin Dickey, “Grief and Solemnity”; on the American way of death (11/27/2011)
Jocelyn Heaney, “The Things We Carry”; on teaching in a community college and the talk about higher education. (11/18/2011)
Peggy Kamuf, “Life in Storage”; on A&E’s Storage Wars (2/4/2012)
Casey Walker, “An Invitation to Forgetting”; on Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein (8/10/2011)
Shaun Randol, “Virtual Violence”; on war at a distance (3/22/2012)
David Yourdon, “Southpaw Grammar”; on life among the left-handed (12/7/2011)

Editorials
Jonathan Lethem, “My Disappointment Critic”; on being reviewed by James Wood (11/7/2011)
Tom Lutz, “Future Tense”; on publishing (8/6/2011)
Tom Lutz, “Odious and Unpleasant”; on book reviews (6/25/2011)
Matthew Specktor, “Every Force Evolves A Form” (6/8/2011)

Economics
Joshua Clover, “Autumn of the Empire”; on Giovanni Arrighi (7/18/2011)
Brian Collins, “The Great Shock”; on Yanis Varoufakis’s new theory of the global financial crisis (10/17/2011)

Essays
Reza Aslan, “The Fire this Time”; on the long-term effects of 9/11 (9/9/2011)
Audrey Bilger, “Just Like a Woman”; on Jane Austen’s brand of sentimental education (9/5/2011)
Sven Birkerts, “The Pump you Pump the Water From”; on writer’s block (12/5/2011)
Sven Birkerts, “The Room and the Elephant” (6/7/2011)
Kevin Brockmeier, “Why to Take Notes” (7/30/2011)
Mikel Dunham, “The Apocalyptic Tradition”; on Roberto Bolaño, the consummate literary exile (10/19/2011)
Ben Ehrenreich, “The Death of the Book” (4/18/2011)
Janet Fitch, “The Middle Years: A Meditation on By Nightfall”; on Michael Cunningham (5/25/2011)
David Freeman, “Understated Turmoil”; on Beryl Bainbridge (3/3/2012)
Lee Gutkind, “Doing A D’Agata”; on John D’Agata and Jim Jingal’s The Lifespan of a Fact (3/19/2012)
Jenny Hendrix, “Clear Lines”; on the afterlife of Tintin (12/27/2011)
Pico Iyer, “The Writers that Shadow Us”; on the Ghost of Graham Greene (1/4/2012)
Kurt Jensen, “From Moscow Art Theatre to Catfish Row”; on Mamoulian’s contribution to Porgy and Bess (2/28/2012)
Dinah Lenney, “Be Thou the Voice”; on memoirists, actors, musicians, and other cover artists (9/8/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, “Advertisements for Norman Mailer”; on his obsession with an immortal literary character (10/3/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, “My Disappointment Critic”; on being reviewed by James Wood (11/7/2011)
Beth Boyle Machlan “An Unfinishable Work”; on building, plots, and mourning at Ground Zero (9/11/2011)
David Mattin, “Exile on Fleet Street”; on Rupert Murdoch (8/8/2011)
Mark McGurl, “The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing” (5/11/2011)
Jacob Mikanowski, “Decay is the Way Dead Things Live”; on Bruno Schulz, Jindřich Štyrský, and other modernist masters of matter (3/2/2012)
Ander Monson, “The Skeptical Gaze”; on on John D’Agata and Jim Fingal’s The Lifespan of a Fact (3/20/2012)
Maggie Nelson, “Theaters of Cruelty”; on Antonin Artaud and others (7/8/2011)
Geoff Nicholson, “Buster Keaton and the World of Objects” (4/19/2011)
Victoria Patterson, “Not Pretty”; a response to Franzen’s Edith Wharton piece
Lisa Jane Persky, “Skin Deep”; on tattoos (5/16/2011)
Maggie Nelson, “Finishing Touches”; on the posthumous work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1/13/2012)
David Shields, “Life is Short; Art is Shorter” (5/2/2011)
Louise Steinman, “Yizkor Bukher”; on Jacob Glatstein’s The Glatstein Chronicles (6/27/2011)
Martin Sixsmith, “Russia’s New Time of Troubles”; on Russia, then and now (3/4/2012)
Oliver Wang, “Living With Linsanity” (3/6/2012)
Laurie Winer, “Magicland”; on Glenn Beck (6/1/2011)

Fiction
Megan Abbott, “Twilight of the Boosters”; on Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers (10/11/2011)
Howard Akler, “You. Are. Invented.”; on Austin Wright’s Tony and Susan (12/3/2011)
Domenick Ammirati and Cecile Alduy, “In Media Ars”; on Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory (3/12/2012)
Benjamin Balint, “Flesh and Blood”; on David Grossman’s To the End of the Land (4/27/2011)
, “Satyrs”; on Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Mountford, and Brian Doyle (2/13/2012)
Magdalena Edwards, “Unmentionables”; on Norman Rush’s domestic disturbances (10/23/2011)
Lauren Eggert-Crowe, “Words for Remembering”; on the complicated relationship between love and shame (3/21/2012)
Mindy Farabee, “Damages”; on Michelle Latiolais’s art of bereavement (2/21/2012)
a href=”http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/18789784483/harrowing-idealism”>Pawel Frelik, “Harrowing Idealism”; on Steve Erickson’s These Dreams of You (3/5/2012)
Alex Gortman, “After the Liberation”; on Edmund White’s Jack Holmes and His Friend (2/20/2012)
Emily Green, “Pulsing Jewels: Edward St. Aubyn’s at Last”; a quick word on ennui and tree frogs (3/21/2012)
Cornel Bonca and Lee Konstantinou, “Late Returns”; on David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (7/6/2011)
Mark Bould reviews The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (9/16/2011)
Julie Cline, “A Portis Reader”; a look through a great writer’s walking papers (9/2/2011)
Scott Esposito, “It’s Good to be Pragmatic”; on Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods (11/21/2011)
Scott Esposito, “Nothing to Say?”; on Jesse Ball, publishing dystopia, and the triumph of marketing (9/26/2011)
Brian Finney, “Ghostwriting the Globe”; on the globalist fiction of David Mitchell (8/31/2011)
Janet Fitch, “The Middle Years: A Meditation on By Nightfall”; on Michael Cunningham (5/25/2011)
Piotr Florczyk, “Other Europes”; on Andrzej Stasiuk’s travels into the past (9/27/2011)
David Freeman, “Quotidian Stories”; on Jill Ciment and Jane Gardam (8/29/2011)
Rachel Galvin, “Choose Your Own Frustration”; on Georges Perec’s The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise (8/31/2011)
Tod Goldberg, “Falling Down”; on the long-awaited arrival of the Angeleno novel(10/18/2011)
Rigoberto González, “Romeo Byron Is Dead”; on Jessica Hagedorn’s Toxicology (7/13/2011)
Roberto González, “Growing Up”; on Justin Torres’s We the Animals (10/7/2011)
Jenny Hendrix, E.C. McCarthy, Jardine Libaire, “Tallying Our Truths”; on Ausubel, Ondaatje, and Mengestu (2/27/2012)
Jenny Hendrix, “In Limbo”; on two fictions of excess (9/20/2011)
Vanessa Hua, “A Reader’s Guide to Peter Mountford” (6/1/2011)
Lee Konstantinou, “Never Again, Again”; on Art Spiegelman’s Ghost (1/30/2012)
Lee Konstantinou, “Hurricane Helen”; on Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods (11/21/2011)
Brooks Landon, “Strange Stories”; on Karen Joy Fowler’s What I Didn’t See and Other Stories (8/29/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, “Advertisements for Norman Mailer”; on his obsession with an immortal literary character (10/3/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, “My Disappointment Critic”; on being reviewed by James Wood (11/7/2011)
Adam Z. Levy, “Hungarian Masked Ball”; on Dezső Kosztolányi’s Kornél Esti (8/16/2011)
Lisa Locascio, “Waking From the Dream of Alaska”; on Melinda Moustakis’ Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories (12/3/2011)
Kerry Madden, “The Books that Made Us: Charlotte’s Web”; on Michael Sims’s The Story of Charlotte’s Web (8/24/2011)
Paul Mandelbaum, “Whose Hollywood Is It Anyway?”; on Mona Simpson’s My Hollywood (6/15/2011)
Mark McGurl, “The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing” (5/11/2011)
Walter Benn Michaels, Erica Edwards, and Aldon Nielsen, “What Is African American Literature? A Symposium”; on Kenneth W. Warren’s What Was African American Literature? (6/13/2011)
N.S. Morris, “Lighting Darkened Corners”; on Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen (7/21/2011)
a href=”http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/16347968333/beautiful-equations”>Gregory Leon Miller and Walton Muyumba, “Beautiful Equations”; on the recent work of Percival Everett (1/23/2012)
Geoff Nicholson, “Descalations”; on Will Self’s Walking to Hollywood
Alix Ohlin, “Our Zombies, Ourselves”; on Colson Whitehead and the undead. (11/14/2011)
Anthony Olcott, “Real Penguins in Imaginary Apartments”; on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction (11/10/2011)
Chelsey Philpot, “Puns, Games, and Mathemagic”; on the enduring magic of The Phantom Tollbooth (11/17/2011)
Neal Pollack, “Artistic Pulp Sleaziness”; on a 23-volume Richard Stark reprint series (10/14/2011)
Alison Powell, “A Pirate’s Life for Me”; on Sara Levine’s Treasure Island!!! (1/10/2012)
Dean Rader, “Memory May Not Sustain”; on Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run (11/24/2011)
Christopher Rice, “It’s Good To Be King”; on Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars (5/12/2011)
Havrilesky, Rosner, and Russin, “At Home and Abroad”; on new fiction by Lee Sherman, and Burnett (2/6/2012)
David Shields, “Prologue”; on Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station (8/23/2011)
Jacob Silverman, “Other Europes”; on Imre Kertesz’s pre-Nobel Prize novel of “eternal forgetting” (9/28/2011)
Jane Smiley, “The Other Nancy Mitford” (4/20/2011)
Jane Smiley, “Strange Lights”; on Sheri Holman’s Witches on the Road Tonight (6/8/2011)
Mark Haskell Smith, “Half Termite, Half Elephant”; on Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence (12/1/2011)
Mark Haskell Smith, “Year of the Fire Cock”; on Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes (8/9/2011)
Carol Snow, “Growing Up”; on Christopher Grant’s Teenie (10/7/2011)
Matthew Specktor and Joshua Hardina, “Freedom, Revisited”; on Jonathan Franzen (5/4/2011)
Natalie Standiford, “All in the Family”; on Colin and Maile Meloy (1/18/2012)
Bruce Whiteman, “A Serious Man Whose Love Will Last”; on two new classical translations by David R. Slavitt. (11/24/2011)
Kate Wolf and Matthew Specktor, “Patience and Virtue”; on Lydia Davis and her book The Cows (11/8/2011)
Michael Wood, “Good Germans”; on Heinrich Boll (8/3/2011)
Charles Yu, “World-shifting”; on Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 (12/12/2011)

Film
Leo Braudy, “The Time of Our Lives”; on Christian Marclay’s The Clock (7/14/2011)
F.X. Feeney, “A Wilderness of Contradictions”; on the Deep Focus series (6/22/2011)
Jonathan Foltz, “Even as Everything Melts”; on Malcolm Turvey’s history of avant-garde film in the 1920s (8/15/2011)
Jocelyn Heaney, “Marilynalia”; on Marilyn Monroe’s Fragments (5/10/2011)
Juliana Maria Lorenz, “Wunderkind”; on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television (8/18/2011)
Geoff Nicholson, “Buster Keaton and the World of Objects” (4/19/2011)
Swati Pandey, “Cinematic”; on Roger Ebert’s Life Itself (3/14/2012)
Jonathan Penner, “Cronenberg” (1/28/2012)
Jonathan Penner, “The Horror”; a Halloween examination of the monsters in his life (10/30/2011)
Steven J. Ross “The Paranoid Style”; on J. Hoberman’s history of movies in the age of McCarthy (9/2/2011)
Richard Schickel, “Citizen Kael, Part I”; on the life and work of Pauline Kael (11/30/2011)
Richard Schickel, “You’re Not a Star Until They Can Spell Your Name in Karachi”; on Humphrey Bogart (4/29/2011)
Laurie Winer, “Citizen Kael, Part II”; on the life and work of Pauline Kael (12/2/2011)
Jonathan Zimmerman, “True Story”; on the mythology of film school (1/28/2012)

Food
John McIntyre, “Finer Dining Through Chemistry”; on Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli, and the molecular gastronomy revolution (2/29/2012)
Thane Tierney, “Around the Table”; on la vie gourmande (11/3/2011)

History
Ibrahim N. Abusharif, “Libya, 1931” (6/21/2011)
Roxana Badin, “Practicing On Patients”; on Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies (6/12/2011)
Banjamin Balint, “Disjecta Membra”; on the discovery of an archive in Egypt (2/5/2012)
Jason Boog, “People’s Libraries”; on the return of the thirties (11/12/2011)
Joshua Clover, “Autumn of the Empire”; on Giovanni Arrighi (7/18/2011)
Mike Davis, “The Ghost of Wrath, Episode 1: Broom of Destruction” (7/16/2011)
Xujun Eberlein, “The Teacher of the Future”; on the Chinese famine (1/31/2011)
John Romano, “Culture War”; on Niall Ferguson’s Civilization (2/17/2012)
Philip Goldberg, “The Most Versatile of Mystics”; on insiders, outsider, and the debate over Sri Ramakrishna’s sexuality (10/6/2011)
Malcolm Harris, “The Hand That Feeds”; on Olivier Zunz’s Philanthropy in America (3/13/2012)
Joy Horowitz, “Signs and Wonders”; on Leo Braudy’s The Hollywood Sign and Kevin Starr’s Golden Gate (5/13/2011)
Eli Jelly-Schapiro, “Days of Infamy”; on John Dower’s Cultures of War (8/1/2011)
Kate Merkel-Hess and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, “The Country and the City”; on two new histories of rural China and Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions (10/12/2011)
G.J. Meyer, “Valediction”; on saying farewell to Tony Judt (2/8/2012)
Walter Benn Michaels, Erica Edwards, and Aldon Nielsen, “What Is African American Literature? A Symposium” (6/13/2011)
Ingrid Norton, “Genghis Khan’s DNA”; on Steven Pinker’s history of violence (12/6/2011)
Swati Pandey, “Life After Papyrus” (2/17/2012)
John Durham Peters and Glen Roven, “Twentieth Century Stories”; on Alex Ross and Louis Menand (2/1/2012)
John Shannon “A Chilling Vietnam War Novel”; on Kent Anderson’s Sympathy for the Devil (10/14/2011)
Steven Shapin, “People Who Eat People”; on Cătălin Avramescu’s Intellectual History of Cannibalism (3/7/2012)
Louise Steinman, “Yizkor Bukher”; on Jacob Glatstein’s The Glatstein Chronicles (6/27/2011)
Albert Wu, “Church and State”; on Liao Yiwu’s oral histories and the new Christian martyrs in the Chinese heartland (3/8/2012)

Horror
Christopher Rice, “It’s Good To Be King” (5/12/2011)

Humor
Ellis Weiner, “Stephen Potter: Life Among the Acquaintances” (5/18/2011)

Interviews
Eric Been talks to Thomas Frank (3/16/2012)
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay talks to Kim Stanley Robinson about his Three Californias trilogy (9/16/2011)
Adam J. Fitzgerald, “Both Coasts”; interview with Geoffrey G. O’Brien (10/13/2011)
Michael Goetzman, “Pulp Nonfiction”; interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan (2/10/2012)
Vanessa Hua, “A Reader’s Guide to Peter Mountford” (6/1/2011)
Lee Konstantinou, The LARB Interview: Helen DeWitt (11/21/2011)
Jonathan Lethem, Paul Nelson, and Kevin Avery, “Cattle Calls and Contract Players”; a foreword and two selections from Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson’s Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood — 1978-1983 (9/12/2011)
Jonathan Penner, “Ball of Fire: Jimmy McDonough” (6/24/2011)
Clarissa Romano, “Delight and Delectation”; on Anne Germanacos (7/27/2011)
Jean Stein, “Larry Flynt at Home” (6/10/2011)
Chris Wallace, “A Conversation with Geoff Dyer; on The Missing of the Somme (8/17/2011)
Michael Wolfe, “Assume the Position”; Wolfe talks to Edmund White (2/20/2012)
Kate Wolf and Matthew Specktor, “Patience and Virtue”; on Lydia Davis and her book The Cows (11/8/2011)

Journalism
Mike Davis, “The Ghost of Wrath, Episode 1: Broom of Destruction”; on Harrison Gray Otis (7/16/2011)
Emily Green, “Cut and Paste and Run”; on finding her words in someone else’s book (8/20/2011)
Tom Lutz, “Future Tense”; on publishing (8/6/2011)
David Mattin, “Exile on Fleet Street”; on Rupert Murdoch (8/8/2011)
Mort Persky, “Inch by Column Inch”; on the art of the newspaper column (1/27/2012)
Michael Washburn, “Returning to the Scene”; on Janet Malcolm’s Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (8/18/2011)
Laurie Winer, “Zell to L.A. Times: Drop Dead”; on the dismantling of a once great newspaper (11/9/2011)

Letters
Frederick Deknatel, “Letter from Cairo” (12/29/2011)
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, “Letter from Trinidad”; on Beyoncé (5/27/2011)
Michael North and Steven G. North, “Biography Sideways” (1/17/2012)
David Lau, “Letter From Oakland”; report from the Bay Area, before and after the general strike (11/12/2011)
David Mattin, “Exile on Fleet Street”; on Rupert Murdoch (8/8/2011)
David Mattin, “Lost in the Supermarket”; on finding meaning in the London “shopping riots” (9/4/2011)
Christopher Merrill, “Soot and Ash” (8/22/2011)
Ingrid Norton, “Letter the Detroit” (1/16/2012)
Letters to the Editors from Hylton, Monday, Gandhi, Steinberg, Freedman, and Farrell (11/6/2011)

Memoir
Laurie Benenson, “Legacy” (7/2/2011)
Duff Brenna, “Outing the Inside” (5/23/2011)
Miles Corwin, “Tall Redhead Syndrome” (6/2/2011)
Meghan Daum, “Having, Or Making, Or Thinking About Making A Drink”; on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (10/28/2011)
Amy Ephron, “Kind of Blue”; on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (10/27/2011)

Veronica Gonzalez, “Mourning and Melancholia”; on Francisco Goldman’s Say Her Name (8/17/2011)
Loren Glass, “Golden Age”; on Richard Seaver’s The Tender Hour of Twilight (2/2/2012)
Juliana Maria Lorenz, “Wunderkind”; on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television (8/18/2011)
Casey O’Neil, “The Ashes That Remain”; on Boris Pahor’s Necropolis (8/16/2011)
David Shields, “Prepublication”; on Fred Moody’s manuscript
Unspeakable Joy (8/23/2011)
Matthew Specktor, “Positions of Privilege”; on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (10/24/2011)
Susan Straight, “The Baby”; on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (10/25/2011)
Michael Tolkin, “One Inch Above the Ground”; on Louis Auchincloss’ A Voice from Old New York (5/9/2011)
Diana Wagman, “The Pervert’s Point of View” (6/17/2011)
Keri Walsh, “Famously Married”; on Antonia Fraser’s Must You Go? (7/4/2011)
Erica Wetter, “Home Pages” (6/20/2011)
Amy Wilentz, “Where the Morning Went”; on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (10/26/2011)
Rita Williams, “Outing the Inside”; on Annie Proulx’s Bird Cloud (5/23/2011)

Mentor Series
Bob Blaisdell and Jervey Tervalon; on Marvin Mudrick (12/30/2011)
Morten Hoi Jensen; on Siddhartha Deb (1/5/2012)
Jeffrey Kindley; on Marianne Moore (1/3/2012)
Sianne Ngai; on Stanley Cavell (1/5/2012)
Geoff Nicholson; on J.H. Prynne (12/28/2011)
Clarissa Romano; on Barry Hannah (12/26/2011)
Mark Sarvas; on Steven Corbin (1/3/2012)
Matthew Specktor; on James Baldwin (1/6/2012)
Rita Williams; on Alison Leslie Gold (12/28/2011)

Music
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, “Letter from Trinidad”; on Beyoncé (5/27/2011)
Grace Krilanovich, “Ambush Haircuts”; on Dewar MacLeod’s Kids of the Black Hole (8/4/2011)
Josh Langhoff and Michaelangelo Matos, “King of the Contrarians”; on Chuck Eddy (9/29/2011)
Franklin Bruno and Sara Jaffe, “The Music Lovers”; on 19th century musicking and punk’s racial politics (1/24/2012)
Greil Marcus, “Heart of Stone”; on Keith Richards’ Life (5/5/2011)
Sara Marcus, “Cherry Bomb”; on Ellen Willis’s escape from the music ghetto (9/19/2011)
Mike McGonigal, “Pop Will Meet Itself”; on Simon Reynolds and Retro Culture (1/9/2012)
Marjorie Perloff, “The Natural Look”; on the 50th anniversary of John Cage’s Silence (11/2/2011)
Aretha Sills, “Muddy Waters and Mozart”; on the Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1/1/2012)
Gayle Wald, “A Singer’s Singer”; on a new biography of soul legend Little Willie John (12/9/2011)

Noir
Megan Abbott, “Soft-Voiced Big Men” (4/28/2011)
Miles Corwin, “Tall Redhead Syndrome”; on James Ellroy’s The Hilliker Syndrome (6/2/2011)
Boris Dralyuk, “The Incomplete Cain”; on the noir master (1/26/2012)
Dan Fante, “Three-Dimensional Wistfulness”; on P.G. Sturges’ Shortcut Man (6/23/2011)
Georgia Jeffries, “Amateurs”; on Luke Rhinehart’s The Dice Man (9/21/2011)
Cullen Gallagher, “Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir” (6/23/2011)
Woody Haut, “Snappy and Reckless” (7/29/2011)
Jefferson Hunter, “Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill” (4/22/2011)
Charles Kelly, “The Wrong Marlowe”; on an amnesiac pulp writer in L.A. (3/10/2012)
Rohan Maitzen, “Martin Beck Has A Cold”; on Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Story of Crime series (8/5/2011)
William Marling, “Pure Cain”; on the latest vogue for James M. Cain (9/21/2011)

Occupy Wall Street
Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Annie McClanahan; On Percentages, Politics, and the Police (10/15/2011)
Jason Boog, “People’s Libraries”; on the return of the thirties (11/12/2011)
Joshua Clover, “Seize the Ponies”; on Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California (11/13/2011)
Mike Davis, “No More Bubble Gum” (10/21/2011)
Ben Ehrenreich, “The End of the Beginning”; on moving onward (12/13/2011)
Ben Ehrenreich, “Uprising”; on Occupy Los Angeles(10/15/2011)
Sesshu Foster, “Occupy Los Angeles Saturday, October 15” (10/21/2011)
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, “Crimson Front”; on Occupy Harvard (11/13/2011)
Todd Gitlin “New York City, October 19: The Sense of a Movement” (10/21/2011)
Joshua Hardina, “The Battle of the People’s Kitchen”; on Occupy Riverside (11/13/2011)
Sonali Kolhatkar, “Big Tent”; on the strange bedfellows of Occupy Los Angeles (11/12/2011)
David Lau, “Letter From Oakland”; report from the Bay Area, before and after the general strike (11/12/2011)
Sara Marcus, “C-SPAN for Radicals” (10/21/2011)
Ed Skoog, “Recessionary Measures in Support of Occupy Seattle” (10/21/2011)

Obituaries
Howard A. Rodman, “The Mysterious Island” (6/11/2011)

Philosophy
Jon Cotner, “Philosophical Improvisations”; on Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti’s The Chairs are Where the People Go (12/19/2011)
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Man Is Not Cat Food”; on animals and morality (6/6/2011)
Arne De Boever, “The Return of the Gods”; on Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly’s polytheistic philosophy
Chris Kraus, “Posthumous”; on Simone Weil (5/31/2011)
Susan Stewart, “Sacred Dirt”; on Michel Serres’s ecological philosophy (9/22/2011)
Jon Wiener, “The Age of Revolution”; on a Communist historian’s reconsideration of the revolutionary project (11/4/2011)

Poetry
Peter Campion, “Beyond Disbelief”; on C. Dale Young, Tom Sleigh, and Lynn Emanuel (9/1/2011)
Ange Mlinko and Peter Campion, “Thinking and Thanking” (1/19/2012)
Garret Hongo, “In the Charles Wright Museum”; on Charles Wright (8/12/2011)
David Kirby, “Stange Trip”; on Yusef Komunyakaa(9/14/2011)
Marjorie Perloff, “Channeling Georg Trakl”; on Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl (5/17/2011)
Siobhan Phillips, “Astounding Cosmic News”; on Matthew Zapruder’s Come On All You Ghosts (6/9/2011)
Adam Plunkett, Siobhan Phillips, and Brian Reed, “All Together Now” (2/22/2012)
Ed Skoog, “Recessionary Measures in Support of Occupy Seattle” (10/21/2011)
Metropole (10/13/2011)
Lytton Smith, “From the Other Coast”; on British poetry and riot (12/2/2011)
Brian Kim Stefans, “Thoroughly Modern Elsa”; on the rediscovery of a modernist innovator (12/16/2011)
Daniel Tiffany, “We Revolt Ourselves”; on Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation (4/26/2011)
Charles Harper Webb, “Stars Inside Your Thumb”; on Bob Hicok (6/9/2011)
Gordon Fellman, “Dissent”; on Liu Xiaobo’s No Enemies, No Hatred (3/9/2012)

Politics
Ibrahim N. Abusharif, “Libya, 1931” (6/21/2011)
Laurie Benenson, “Legacy”; on George Bush’s Decision Points (7/2/2011)

Joshua Clover, “Autumn of the Empire”; on Giovanni Arrighi (7/18/2011)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “Narcocorridos”; on Ed Vulliamy’s Amexica (5/26/2011)
Graham Harman, “Egyptian Spring”; on Tweets from Tahrir (6/14/2011)
Alex Lichtenstein, “Zimbabwe and the Politics of Impunity”; on human rights in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (11/23/2011)
Jess Row, “The End of Mourning”; on Tony Kushner and 21st century Marxism (3/15/2012)
Elbert Ventura, “Celebrity Politicians”; on Steven J. Ross’ Hollywood Left and Right (11/22/2011)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “Hot Dystopic: Orwell and Huxley at the Shanghai World’s Fair” (5/20/2011)
Laurie Winer, “Magicland”; on Glenn Beck (6/1/2011)

Psychology
Casey Walker, “An Invitation to Forgetting”; on Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein (8/10/2011)

Religion
Briallen Hopper, “Strange Bedfellows”; on Christianity and homosexuality (2/23/2012)
Erica Wetter, on Jeff Sharlet’s Sweet Heaven When I Die (2/23/2012)

Science
Ross Andersen, “Golden Eye”; on the James Webb Space Telescope (2/15/2012)
Roxana Badin, “Practicing On Patients”; on Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies (6/12/2011)
Aaron P. Blaisdell, “The Symphony of Self”; on Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind (2/7/2012)
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Man Is Not Cat Food”; on animals and morality (6/6/2011)
Gary Lachman, “Oppositional Thinking”; on the two hemispheres of the brain (2/9/2012)
Michele Pridmore-Brown, “The Girl with the Father Tatto”; on the changing nature of father-daughter alchemy (12/15/2011)
Michele Pridmore-Brown, “Social Darwinism”; on Robin Dunbar’s How Many Friends Does One Person Need? (5/24/2011)
Rosten Woo, “The Right Fit”; on how the spacesuit was made (12/14/2011)
Marlene Zuk, “Honey and the Long Haul”; on the beekeeper’s Faustian bargain (10/5/2011)

Sex
Michaelangelo Matos, “The Story of Porno”; on two dirty books (2/12/2012)

Speculative Fiction
Neil Easterbrook, “Language and Monsters”; on China Miéville’s Embassytown (8/26/2011)
Rob Latham, “A Malaise Deeper than Shopping;”; on J.G. Ballard (5/6/2011)
Roger Luckhurst, “Boiling Point” (6/3/2011)
John Rieder, “Secret Histories”; on steampunk (6/11/2011)
Sherryl Vint, “Advertising Degree Zero”; on William Gibson’s Zero History (6/3/2011)

Symposia
Walter Benn Michaels, Erica Edwards, and Aldon Nielsen, “What Is African American Literature? A Symposium” (6/13/2011)

Technology
Sven Birkerts, “The Room and the Elephant” (6/7/2011)

Television
Phillip Maciak, “Everything Happened”; on AMC’s Mad Men (3/25/2012)

Travel
Louise Steinman, “Yizkor Bukher” (6/27/2011)
Richard Wolin, “Dreaming in Chinese”; on a recent trip to China (3/1/2012)

Urbanism
Frederick Deknatel, “2050 or Bust”; on urban planning in the Egyptian desert. (11/16/2011)
Pete L’Official, “Surface Tensions”; on José Parlá and Mark Bradford, two archivists of urban ruins (9/10/2011)
Nikil Saval, “Mapping the Bay Area”; on Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (7/20/2011)
Casey Walker, “Keys to the City” (5/30/2011)

Young Adult
Javier Grillo-Marxuach, “Elephant Families and Others” (8/2/2011)
Mette Ivie Harrison, “Elephant Families and Others”; on Judy Blundell’s Strings Attached (8/2/2011)
Margaret Stohl, “Saving Folks, Solving Mysteries; on Victoria Bond’s Zora and Me” (5/3/2011)