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Lorrie Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt and the author of four story collections and three novels. Her most recent book is a collection of essays, See What Can Be Done. (August 2018)
The Queen of Rue
The coolly abstracted consciousness of Rachel Cusk’s stories
Kudos
by Rachel Cusk
August 16, 2018 issue
Ain’t It Always Stephen Stills
For a particular generation, the songs of Stephen Stills were marinated into our minds, our spines, our bones.
Stephen Stills: Change Partners
by David Roberts
August 17, 2017 issue
The Case of O.J. Simpson
Ezra Edelman’s ESPN documentary ‘O.J.: Made in America’
O.J.: Made in America
a five-part ESPN documentary directed by Ezra Edelman
October 27, 2016 issue
A Very Singular Girl
The advice of Helen Gurley Brown
Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
by Gerri Hirshey
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
by Brooke Hauser
Sex and the Single Girl
by Helen Gurley Brown
The Single Girl Goes to Town: A Knowing Guide to Men, Maneuvers, Jobs and Just Living for Big City Women
by Jean Baer
July 14, 2016 issue
TV: The Shame of Wisconsin
‘Making a Murderer’ by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos
Making a Murderer
a Netflix documentary series directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos
February 25, 2016 issue
Sympathy for the Devil
The much limper second season of ‘True Detective’
True Detective
a television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto
September 24, 2015 issue
Our Date with Miranda
The multitalented, uncategorizable Miranda July
The First Bad Man
by Miranda July
No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Me and You and Everyone We Know
a film directed by Miranda July
The Future
a film directed by Miranda July
March 5, 2015 issue
Gazing at Love
Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’
Blue Is the Warmest Color
a film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
December 19, 2013 issue
Double Agents in Love
Is madness times two ever sexy? The problem with ‘Homeland’
Homeland
a television series created by Alex Gansa
February 21, 2013 issue
Werner Herzog on Death Row
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life
a film directed by Werner Herzog
December 22, 2011 issue
Very Deep in America
On the NBC series ‘Friday Night Lights’
Friday Night Lights, Seasons 1–5
a television series created by Peter Berg
Friday Night Lights
a film directed by Peter Berg
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream
by H.G. Bissinger
August 18, 2011 issue
What If?
We love to read memoirs. Why shouldn’t we?
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
by Jill Bialosky
The Long Goodbye
by Meghan O'Rourke
Dear Marcus: Speaking to the Man Who Shot Me
by Jerry McGill
May 12, 2011 issue
In the Life of ‘The Wire’
The Wire
a television series created by David Simon
The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television
edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
The Wire: Truth Be Told
by Rafael Alvarez, with an introduction by David Simon
October 14, 2010 issue
The Brazilian Sphinx
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
by Benjamin Moser
Near to the Wild Heart
translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Selected Crônicas
translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Family Ties
translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
The Apple in the Dark
translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa
The Passion According to G.H.
translated from the Portuguese by Ronald W. Sousa
The Hour of the Star
translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Closer to the Wild Heart: Essays on Clarice Lispector
edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams
Reading with Clarice Lispector
by Hélène Cixous, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Verena Andermatt Conley
September 24, 2009 issue
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