Book review: Louis Menand’s Finding it at the Movies #

Essay, pt 1: Jonathan Lethem’s The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism #

Essay, pt 2: Garry Kasparov’s The Chess Master and The Computer #

Film writing: David Foster Wallace’s David Lynch Keeps His Head #

Review, pt 1: Lester Bang’s review of Astral Weeks #

Review, pt 2: Pitchfork’s review of Sisterworld #

Music criticism: Alex Ross’s Apparition in the Woods (the Sibelius piece) #

Music criticism and essayistic radio: Robert Harris’ Twenty Pieces of Music That Changed the World, episode 1, 4, 11, 14, 15, or 19 #

The art of the profile, pt 1: Gay Talese’s Frank Sinatra Has a Cold #

The art of the profile, pt 2: Andrew Corsello’s Shatner! #

The pan, pt 1: Anthony Lane’s Space Case #

The pan, pt 2: Pitchfork’s review of Lateralus #

Video criticism: Matt Zoller Seitz and Aaron Aradillas’s The Evolution of the Modern Blockbuster, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, and pt 5 (if you’re choosing this, watch all five parts) #