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Jo Livingstone

Jo Livingstone is a former staff writer at The New Republic.

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April 20, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Hidden Lives of Facebook Porn Scrubbers
A new documentary takes us inside an industry that has farmed out the psychological trauma of cleaning up the internet.
April 19, 2017
Jo Livingstone
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Reality Television
The turn toward niche obsessions reflects America in all its humble, variegated glory. But at what cost?
April 14, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Art of the New York Times Obituary
A new documentary examines the strange lives of the journalists who man the death-desk at the paper of record.
April 13, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Secret Lives of Grace Paley’s Women
A new anthology cements her legacy as our most interesting writer of domesticity.
April 10, 2017
Jo Livingstone
After Netflix: Where the Best Television Online is Hiding
Niche streaming services like AMC’s ‘Shudder’ celebrate the genres mainstream providers neglect.
April 4, 2017
PodcastJo Livingstone
With S-Town, Podcasts Come of Age
The series, from the creators of 'Serial,' begins as a murder investigation, before broadening into a meta-investigation of its own genre.
March 31, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Organic, Violent Comedies of a Young David Lynch
A new documentary examines the director’s early life and painting career.
March 30, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Anne Hathaway’s Big, Big Love
Her character controls the enormous monster of Nacho Vigalondo’s genre-busting “Colossal.” What is going on with Hollywood, girls, and monsters?
March 27, 2017
Jo Livingstone, Lovia Gyarkye
Death to the Flâneur
This mythic figure is having a moment. But to adopt his point of view is to look for meaning around all the wrong corners.
March 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone, Lovia Gyarkye
The Case Against Dana Schutz
Why her painting of Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial insults his memory.
March 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Mohsin Hamid’s Novel Imagines a Miracle of Migration
'Exit West' conjures a world where there are no barriers to movement.
March 21, 2017
Jo Livingstone
A Gorgeous Movie About Fear, Adolescence, and Cannibalism
“Raw” is a toothsome morsel for horror-movie aficionados.
March 17, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The First Great Instagram Novel
Olivia Sudjic’s “Sympathy” meets the reader at intimacy’s new frontier.
March 16, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Cutting-Edge Sincerity of the Whitney Biennial
An exceptionally heartfelt selection of work puts a nation face to face with itself.
March 14, 2017
Jo Livingstone
How to Look at Kristen Stewart
As she puts her tween-cinema origin story behind her, Stewart faces pigeonholing of a subtler variety.
March 7, 2017
Jo Livingstone
A Feminism of the 99 Percent
The organizers of the International Women’s Strike say they are addressing the everyday concerns of women across the country.
March 3, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Acid House Is All Grown Up
A commemorative compilation pays a very special tribute to a legendary synthesizer—proof that everybody still needs a 303.
March 2, 2017
Jo Livingstone, Lovia Gyarkye
Uptown Girl / Uptown Boy
How a new exhibition of Alice Neel's paintings, curated by Hilton Als, reflexively explores relationships and identity.
February 27, 2017
Jo Livingstone
In Defense of Cultural Criticism in Trump’s America
Why the arts need a space the state can't touch—and how we get there.
February 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone
A Cure For Wellness Is the Horror Movie We Deserve
Gore Verbinski’s mountaintop horror flick is haunted by Freudian melodies and evil capitalists. And eels.

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