
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"

On Poetry and Greece
May 10th, 2013
Virginia Woolf, camp, and queer identity
May 6th, 2013

Reconsidering the 37th president
May 1st, 2013
The state of California's single payer movement
April 30th, 2013

Remembering the American comics artist and editor
April 27th, 2013
On the American country music legend
April 27th, 2013
On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'
April 26th, 2013
A History of Progressivism in Pawnee
April 23rd, 2013
Remembering Derrida's "Specters of Marx" lecture
April 23rd, 2013
Poetry, feminism, and Austin's BookWoman bookstore
April 20th, 2013
Andy Griffith and the Humor of Mourning
April 20th, 2013
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

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