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Alexandra Lange|Essays
Dickens is Funny
In the best BBC adaptation of the last five years, Bleak House, Gillian Anderson gives a performance that should wipe Agent Scully permanently from the public mind.

Alexandra Lange|Essays
Auto Pilot
While watching Chop Shop, I was bored not by the plotlessness, or even the purposely inartistic direction, but by the lack of acting.

Eric Baker|Essays
Free Books
Over the last several weeks, in preparation for an office move, I've been weeding out books from my over-filled shelves. We all know what a pain moving is, and so the question I asked everyday was: “Do I really need …

Alexandra Lange|Essays
Romance Is Dead
There are some movies so bad I can’t bear to put them in my Netflix queue, but He's Just Not That Into You somehow made it in.

Alexandra Lange|Essays
Dog Days
Wendy and Lucy may be the feel-bad movie of the year, but it is beautiful, terrifying and real.

Alexandra Lange|Essays
Worst Case Scenario
Two of Danny Boyle's filme, Slumdog Millinaire and Millions suffer from a wavering of purpose from gritty realism to wish fulfilment.

Alexandra Lange|Essays
Evil Ms
A fair number of journalists have mentioned the odd parallelism of the fall of the House of Merdle in Little Dorrit, and the real-life fall of the House of Bernard Madoff.

William Drenttel|Essays
Once Out of Chaos

Alexandra Lange|Essays
Doom
After watching all of the excellent contemporary TV shows, we are back to BBC with The Way We Live Now and The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The Editors|Miscellaneous
Books Received: July 2009
New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. For July, we thought we'd share some of the many recently published titles we have received. Maybe you'll find a surprise or two...

Mark Lamster|Essays
BEA Report: 10 Fall Books (+1) for Your Library
It has been a grim year for publishing, which accounts for the unusually restrained mood this past weekend at Book Expo America, the industry's annual trade show.

Ellen Lupton|Interviews
A Conversation With David Barringer
David Barringer’s book, There’s Nothing Funny About Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) is actually very funny. This collection of new and revised essays presents the graphic design world with a kick in the literary pants. …
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Red, white, and much ado Minefields and maternity leave: why I fight a system that shuts out women and caregivers Candace Parker & Michael C. Bush on Purpose, Leadership and Meeting the MomentCourtney L. McCluney, PhD|Essays
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