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Charles Arrowsmith
Reviews • Features • Criticism
Review: Medicine River by Mary Annette Pemberton (LA Times)
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Apr 21
Review: The Catastrophe Hour by Meghan Daum (LA Times)
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Apr 11
Review: The Colony by Annika Norlin (LA Times)
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Mar 20
Review: Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez (LA Times)
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Feb 5
Review: Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan (LA Times)
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Jan 29
Review: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White (The Times)
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Jan 24
Review: How We Know Our Time Travelers by Anita Felicelli (LA Times)
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Dec 18, 2024
Review: The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard (The Times)
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Sep 28, 2024
Review: The Siege by Ben Macintyre (Washington Post)
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Sep 20, 2024
Review: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Washington Post)
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Sep 2, 2024
Review: What Can We Learn from the Founding Fathers? (Washington Post)
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Jul 4, 2024
Review: The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne (LA Times)
Films & Television
Jun 10, 2024
Review: Four Books for Pride Month (Washington Post)
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Jun 8, 2024
Review: Thorn Tree by Max Ludington (LA Times)
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Apr 13, 2024
Review: Change by Édouard Louis (Washington Post)
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Mar 6, 2024
Review: The Bloodied Nightgown by Joan Acocella (LA Times)
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Feb 26, 2024
Review: You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (Washington Post)
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Jan 8, 2024
Review: A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel (Boston Globe)
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Oct 25, 2023
Review: Blackouts by Justin Torres (Washington Post)
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Oct 12, 2023
Review: Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger (LA Times)
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Oct 6, 2023
Review: The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Washington Post)
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Sep 13, 2023
Review: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Peter Moore (Washington Post)
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Jun 30, 2023
Review: Four New History Books (Washington Post)
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May 24, 2023
Review: The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (Boston Globe)
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May 18, 2023
Review: Berlin by Bea Setton (Washington Post)
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May 16, 2023
Essay: Dante by Thomas Adès and the LA Phil (Nonesuch Records)
Music
Apr 21, 2023
Review: Flux by Jinwoo Chong (Washington Post)
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Mar 22, 2023
Feature: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining—An Interview with Lee Unkrich (LA Times)
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Mar 17, 2023
Opinion: The Oscars 2022 (The Independent)
Films & Television
Mar 13, 2023
Review: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (LA Times)
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Jan 11, 2023
Review: A Left-Handed Woman by Judith Thurman (LA Times)
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Nov 29, 2022
Perspective: Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end (Washington Post)
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Nov 17, 2022
Review: Stay True by Hua Hsu (Washington Post)
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Oct 4, 2022
Review: The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (LA Times)
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Sep 30, 2022
Review: A Woman's Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis (LA Times)
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Aug 11, 2022
Review: Either/Or by Elif Batuman (Washington Post)
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May 24, 2022
Review: The Palace Papers by Tina Brown (LA Times)
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Apr 25, 2022
Opinion: The Oscars 2021 (The Independent)
Films & Television
Mar 28, 2022
Review: Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood (Washington Post)
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Feb 26, 2022
Review: Home/Land by Rebecca Mead (LA Times)
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Feb 9, 2022
Review: Small World by Jonathan Evison (Washington Post)
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Jan 21, 2022
Review: The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy (Washington Post)
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Nov 15, 2021
Review: Will by Will Smith (Washington Post)
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Nov 8, 2021
Review: The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard (LA Times)
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Sep 22, 2021
Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (Washington Post)
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Jun 29, 2021
Review: Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn (Washington Post)
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Jun 11, 2021
Review: Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare (Washington Post)
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Apr 30, 2021
Opinion: The Oscars 2020 (The Independent)
Films & Television
Apr 26, 2021
Review: Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Washington Post)
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Mar 31, 2021
Review: The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone (Washington Post)
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Mar 29, 2021
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