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That 2003 Feeling's Back 27 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
By Isaac Butler Remember months before we invaded Iraq, in fact at least a few weeks before any kind of case started to be made in public, we all just suddenly knew we were going to invade Iraq? That...
Character Bleed and "The Act of Killing" 26 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
By Isaac Butler "It was perplexing to know what to do when atrocity suddenly came up against irony." -- Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings The Act of Killing belongs to one of a handful of movie going ...
Other Folks on The Designated Mourner 26 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
By Isaac Butler There's a bunch of other takes on The Designated Mourner out there, just by the by. Beyond the roundup (it's at a B+!) over at Stagegrade, you can also read George Hunka's admiring an...
My Mind Right Now 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
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Nixonland, The Designated Mourner and Arts Advocacy 22 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
By Isaac Butler I wanted to briefly expand on the points about separate brows, class, and taste that I was circling around in my post yesterday on The Designated Mourner. Basically, one of the things...
Fire Maureen Dowd 22 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
By Isaac Butler When one of your op-ed writers has a history of making up, doctoring or wildly recontextualizing quotes, it is time to fire them. Maureen Dowd has been proved to have made up quotes a...
Get The Guests: Nine Thoughts In Lieu of a Review of The Designated Mourner 21 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
By Isaac Butler (1) There are certain fundamental assumptions about the world that The Designated Mourner contains that, at my core, I do not share. Chief amongst them is that the distinction between...
Chess in Dot Matrix 20 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock Andrew Bujalski’s fourth feature film demonstrates a post-modern twist to the age-old conflict of man versus nature. Not only has the question been reframed as man versus t...
It's a Process (On Howlrowd, Criticism and Apologies) 23 Jul 2013 | 12:30 am
By Isaac Butler I'd like to urge folks who are interested in the kinds of things that Parabasis talks about to check out this review of CalShakes' "American Night" (published as part of Howlround's N...
More On Unpaid Internships 21 Jun 2013 | 04:40 pm
By Isaac Butler This time from MSNBC's Tim Noah: Another moral offense largely unaddressed in Judge Pauley’s decision is the way colleges and universities use unpaid internships to line their pockets ...
