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Jo Livingstone is a former staff writer at
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January 10, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What Meryl Streep and Donald Trump Share
Her barnstorming speech at this weekend’s Golden Globes showed how political discourse always fits itself to the shape of the screen.
January 6, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Lurid Return of the Menendez Brothers
ABC’s new documentary about the notorious parent-killers is an unseemly and incoherent collage.
January 6, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What
The OA
Tells Us About Plato and the Human Heart
In following the adventures of a crew of misfits, Netflix's new sci-fi drama presents a commentary on truth and knowledge in our time.
January 4, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Beyond John Berger’s
Ways of Seeing
The late critic’s seminal work was very much of its time—in ways both good and bad.
September 27, 2016
Magazine
Jo Livingstone
Enigma Variations
Notes toward a theory of Nell Zink.
July 20, 2016
Jo Livingstone
Dave Eggers’s Sentimental Journey
His new novel 'Heroes of the Frontier' turns a troubled mother into a questing hero.
May 2, 2016
Magazine
Jo Livingstone
How Literature Became Word Perfect
Before the word processor, perfect copy was the domain of the typist—not the literary genius.
November 5, 2015
Jo Livingstone
What Your Tattoo Says About the World
A new book dissects the meanings of tattoo cultures
October 9, 2015
Jo Livingstone
Speaking in Tongues
From Elvish to Dothraki, the rise of invented languages
July 24, 2015
Jo Livingstone
Is Worrying a Modernist Invention?
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