Matthew McConaughey and American Manliness

by Peter Lawler

The Oscars Display the Rise and Possible Fall of Manly American Heroism Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2014

No True Detective

by Julia Yost

The fourth episode of HBO’s True Detective could have been titled “Women and Children.” The opening scene, an interrogation of the prisoner Charlie Laing, flags our heroes’ separate preoccupations. When Laing refers to his “wife” the late Dora, Marty corrects . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2014