“Controlling the Narrative,” New York Times “Draft” series, June 9, 2014.
Author Archives: timkreider
Again with the Guns
“There is no catastrophe so Ghastly That America Will Reform Its Gun Laws,” The Week, May 29, 2014. Another of my fluffy zeitgeist pieces.
The Feast of Pain.
“The Feast of Pain,” New York Times, April 27, 2014.
In which I further lower the level of public discourse by using the words pooping and ‘ludes in the pages of the Gray Lady.
Missing the Russians
New essay for Al Jazeera on my warm Cold War nostalgia on the occasion of the Russians acting up in the Crimea.
Our Greatest Political Novelist?
Photograph by Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum
My latest piece on the New Yorker’s “Page-Turner” blog, on political sf novelist Kim Stanley Robinson.
Introducing Sociology
I’ve posted an updated version of my first-ever nationally published piece of writing, a critical essay on Stanley Kubrick’s last film, the much misunderstood and underappreciated Eyes Wide Shut, fully illustrated and with a new afterword.
“Black Friday Blues” in Al Jazeera
The End of Everything
Take Shelter; Meek’s Cutoff; The Turin Horse — the end of everything
My first foray into film criticism in years, published in the Fall issue of Jump-Cut, about the current cycle of eschatological films.
“Slaves of the Internet, Unite!”
Image by Post Typography
“Slaves of the Internet, Unite!” a manifesto in the form of griping, in the New York Times Weekend Review, October 27, 2013.
