Will DiGravio
@willdigravio.bsky.social
researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
www.willdigravio.com
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
www.willdigravio.com
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An Act of Transgression | Los Angeles Review of Books
Will DiGravio reviews Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon’s “The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis.”
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Chuffed to be in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social today with a review of Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon’s superb new book, “The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis.”
A million thanks to @sayanniething.bsky.social!
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...
A million thanks to @sayanniething.bsky.social!
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...
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This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...
IAC-Testimony.withlinks.pdf
drive.google.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...
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Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social
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thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
The Video Essay Podcast - Jiří Anger on 'Towards a Film Theory From Below'
thevideoessay.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social
thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
can’t wait to run it back in 2026
January 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM
can’t wait to run it back in 2026
For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this year’s Prismatic Ground:
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Prismatic Ground: Los Angeles, The Mills, and A Moon - Millennium Film Journal
Read this review of Prismatic Ground by Will DiGravio.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this year’s Prismatic Ground:
millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...
millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.social’s new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC!
It’s as timely as it is captivating!
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
It’s as timely as it is captivating!
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
October 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.social’s new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC!
It’s as timely as it is captivating!
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
It’s as timely as it is captivating!
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair
October 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair
It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was “playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers”
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was “playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers”
should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land
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“It is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,”
@willdigravio.bsky.social writes of ‘The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“It is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,”
@willdigravio.bsky.social writes of ‘The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...
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Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time
Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.
www.pastemagazine.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time
Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.
www.pastemagazine.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...
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Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.
After the twin disasters of the massacre in Myanmar and the 2016 election, social media undergoes a reckoning in the halls of Congress… until a novel virus uncorks a global pandemic and a contagion of hoaxes, conspiracies, and lies online.
July 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.
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Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.
The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.
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The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power
The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.
www.pastemagazine.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power
The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.
www.pastemagazine.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
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“For the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
'Great Enough to Blow Any City Off the Map’: On Site at the First Nuclear Explosion
The men who set off the nuclear age tell the tale in their own words.
www.politico.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“For the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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“The layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in “Anchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...
July 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“The layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in “Anchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...
My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
The Best (and Worst) Moments in Late Night Television This Year (So Far)
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www.pastemagazine.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
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Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this!
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
The Video Essay About The Show: Trailer
YouTube video by Jason Mittell
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July 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this!
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
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Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.
The Sign of a Truly Confident Late-Night Host? Guest Hosts.
Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.
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June 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.
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🛜⚠️ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesday—subscribe now:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🛜⚠️ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesday—subscribe now:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik