China Future
July 8th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
LARBlog: Castellucci’s Class Notes
Free Period
July 7th, 2012
My Stephen King Problem: A Snob’s Notes
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
July 3rd, 2012
What’s Wrong With a Happy Childhood?
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
July 2nd, 2012
The Memory Hole Riot and Rodney King
Rest in Peace, Rodney.
July 2nd, 2012
Salvage Operations
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
Discoveries: Franzen, Beachy-Quick, & Baldwin
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
June 30th, 2012
Supreme Hubris: Theories of Judicial Activism
The inevitability of politics.
June 29th, 2012
Five Thrillers for the Summer
All thriller, no filler
June 27th, 2012
Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
June 26th, 2012
YAC Hit List: The Fairy List
The best faeries ever.
June 25th, 2012
Letter from Australia
What American publication means to Australian writers
June 25th, 2012
Smothered: Part 3
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
June 24th, 2012
The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China
A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.
June 23rd, 2012
The Authority Syndicate: Javier Marias
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times
June 22nd, 2012
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