Words at The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, PMLA, Salon, Slate, Al Jazeera America, The Awl, Post 45, The Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Oyster Books, Boston Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Inquiry, Avidly, Buzzfeed, The Hairpin, Refinery 29, Racked, The Crab Orchard Review, El Mostrador, and PressPlay. You can reach me at lililoof at gmail.
Some highlights:
- The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany (The New York Times Magazine)
- The Fandom Menace: The Problem with Star Wars (Salon)
- Introduction: The Time of the Semi-Public Intellectual (PMLA, co-written with Phillip Maciak)
- TV’s New Girls’ Club (The New York Times Magazine)
- Bull Shipping: On Chilean Mothers and California Gold (VQR–winner of the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction)
- Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels (Post 45–named one of Longreads’ Best Arts and Culture Writing of 2015)
- Why Cuba Gooding Jr.’s OJ Didn’t Work (LA Review of Books)
- Jessica Jones: on rape, addiction, and control (The Guardian)
- How Recaps Changed the Way We Think About TV (The Guardian)
- Game of Thrones & the female gaze: why doesn’t prestige TV cater erotically to women? (Salon)
- Planned Parenthood Saved My Vagina (Al Jazeera America)
- Maria Bamford and the Hard Work of Acting Normal (The Cut)
- Introducing TV’s Best Female Monster Yet (The Cut)
- Marty, the Monster on the True Detective finale (LA Review of Books)
- Just Another Princess Movie (The New Inquiry)
- Brainwashing Woody –On Woody Allen and Mia Farrow (Buzzfeed)
- No to profit –on the student movement in Chile and the privatization of education under Pinochet (Boston Review)
- Rom-Com Girl vs. Party Girl (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Interview with ex-President of Chile Ricardo Lagos on the Student Movement Against the Privatization of Education (El Mostrador) (Spanish)
- The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer and Onto the Street at Occupy Oakland (The Awl)
TV
The People Vs. OJ Simpson
The Americans
Jessica Jones
Horace and Pete
House of Cards (Season 2) (Season 4)
Fortitude
Orange is the New Black
Orphan Black
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Outlander
The Fall
Broad City (S2 Premiere, S2 Episode 3, S2 Episode 5)
Getting On
True Detective
Game of Thrones
Community
Downton Abbey
Masters of Sex
Gilmore Girls
Louie
- Extreme Makeover (Slate)
- “Man on the Brink”, on how the arc of this season of Louie seems to be about gradually challenging the audience to see Louie as an abuser. Elevator, Part 6 on Pamela, Part 1 (LA Review of Books)
- Season 4, “Back” and “Model”
- “Louie vs. Louis CK”
- “RapeJoke and the Politeness Police”
- “Louie’s Choice: Lynch, Dads, and the Weird Chains of Causality”
- “Dad”
- “Bellies and Balloons”
Mad Men
- Mad Men Fantasies (Season 7(2) premiere)
- The Hangover (Season 7 premiere)
- Rhapsody in Beige (Season 6 premiere)
- The Awful Over-Sympathizers of Mad Men
- Mad Men as Minstrel Show
- Time to Go Home
- Baby Mad Men
Girls
TV/Film Trends
- Against Pop Freud (Dear Television at The Los Angeles Review of Books))
- Just Another Princess Movie (The New Inquiry)
- Why We Watch Netflix in the Middle of The Night (Dear TV at The Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Marty, The Monster
Books
- Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels (Post 45)
- The End of Power–A Study in Mass Alienation (The Guardian)
- Agatha Christie: An Introduction (Oyster Books)
- Gollum’s Mother: On Marie Corelli (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Alice Duer Miller’s Are Women People? (The Hairpin)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Book (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- On the Unacknowledged, Virtuosic Mess of Julie Powell’s Cleaving (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Logicomix: “Logicomix: Big on Myth, Short on Math” (Millicent and Carla Fran)
Films
- The Fandom Menace: The Problem with Star Wars (Salon)
- On the Face That Launched A Thousand Clicks, or What The Social Network Isn’t About (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Brave: Just Another Princess Movie (The New Inquiry)
- Bridesmaids: Bridesmaids and The Ghost of Rom-Coms Past (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Taglines for Hugo
- Star Trek: Star Trek: I Love You, Man (Millicent and Carla Fran)
Comedy
- Consensual Comedy: An Interview with Comedian Heather Gold
- Maria Bamford and the Hard Work of Acting Normal (The Cut)
Feminism
- Planned Parenthood Saved My Vagina (Al Jazeera America)
- Game of Thrones fails the female gaze: why does prestige tv refuse to cater erotically to women? (Salon)
- Brainwashing Woody
- Consensual Comedy: An Interview with Comedian Heather Gold
- Free Speech and Violentacrez: What the Anti-Doxxing Argument Misses
- On Ruining Violentacrez’ Life
Sitcoms
- Romcom Girl vs. Party Girl
- RomneyDad: Conservatives in Comedy
- Pelvic Exam Comedy
- Go Back to Start, Do Not Pass Go
- Of In-Groups and Outgroups
- How TV Uses Kids
Feminist Readings
- Against Pop Freud
- Just Another Princess Movie (The New Inquiry)
- Gollum’s Mother: On Marie Corelli (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Are Women People?
- Killing Carrie Bradshaw
- On Free Speech Logic, Creepshots and Violentacrez and follow-up post: On Ruining Violentacrez’s Life–on how reddit’s “no-doxxing” policy unthinks damage done to women (Excremental Virtue)
- The Great Daisy
Higher Education
- High Stakes Criticism: The Case for Academic Gossip (Avidly)
- No to Profit: Fighting 40 Years of Privatized Education in Chile (The Boston Review)
- Interview with ex-President of Chile Ricardo Lagos on the Student Movement Against the Privatization of Education (El Mostrador) (In Spanish)
- Limit Points
- Dear Mark Yudof: The Cemetery You Manage Can Hear You
Social Media analysis
- On Free Speech Logic, Creepshots and Violentacrez and follow-up post: On Ruining Violentacrez’s Life–on how reddit’s “no-doxxing” policy unthinks damage done to women (Excremental Virtue)
- Twitter as a forum for horizontal Muslim feminism: In Which Mona Eltahawy Moderates a Muslim Feminist Revolution (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- How Twitter exposes various forms of trolling and harassment specific to one population to a larger audience, and how trolls respond: How #Mooreandme Worked (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- The Feminist Blog: A Retrospective (Millicent and Carla Fran)
Early Modern Culture
ATHENIAN MERCURY SERIES
- Part 1: Intro: Dear Athenian Mercury: Questions and Answers from the First Advice Column in English (The Awl)
- Part 2: The Non-Reproductive Sex Edition (The Awl)
- Part 3: The Mouse That Crawled Up Inside of a Man and Other Urban Legends of 17th-century England (The Awl)
- Part 4: The Fumes of the Wine Do Ascend, and Other Pieces on 17th-Century Drinking (The Awl)
17th Century Sexual Culture
- What the 17th Century Can Teach us About Vaginas (The Cut)
- In Praise of the S(i)nonym: The Golden Age of Dirty Talk (The Awl)
- The Seventeenth-Century Breastoration: A Time Before Bras (The Hairpin)
- On the wayward adolescents of yore: Party Like Its 1677 (The Hairpin)
- On virginity and coins: The Punching-Office: Where 17th Century Ladies Go For Sex (The Hairpin)
- On humiliating neighbors with handcrafted genitalia: Dildo-Throwing and Other 17th-Century Pranks (The Hairpin)
- On how to recover a lost maidenhead: Restore Your Virginity the 17th Century Way (The Hairpin)
- Hemorrhoids, etc.: Seventeenth-Century Preparation H (The Hairpin)
- Zits, etc. How to React to a Blemish in the 17th Century (The Hairpin)
Grief
- Reading Ferrante After a Suicide (Post45)
- Hallways and Eggs, followed by Mother’s Day one year later. (Millicent and Carla Fran)
- Of Disagreement / Talking to Children / Mourning
Migraine
- Hello, Animal
- my grain
- Tame
- Migraine Time
- Migraine Diorama
- Migraine Nights III
- Migraine Nights II
- Migraine Nights I
- Inflammation
Interesting Failures
- Marty, the Monster
- Julie Powell’s Cleaving
- On the Face That Launched A Thousand Clicks, or What The Social Network Isn’t About
Occupy
- On The December 12 Shutdown of the Port of Oakland (n+1: Occupy! An OWS-Inspired Gazette, #3).
- The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer And Onto the Street at Occupy Oakland (The Awl)
