The Authority Syndicate: Javier Marias
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times
June 22nd, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Welcome to the Anthropocene
A new literature for a new age, the 'Age of Man'
June 20th, 2012
Smothered: Part 2
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
June 17th, 2012
Ray's Show
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012
Nightmarish Glimpses of Our Inner Selves
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
June 12th, 2012
The Bradbury Era
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
June 11th, 2012
Fairy Tales about the Modern World
"He transcended genre and became a genre of one; often emulated, absolutely inimitable."
June 11th, 2012
Smothered: Part I
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
June 10th, 2012
The Three Gunas: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
On Marriage, Writer’s Block and Transcendence
June 7th, 2012
Vade Mecum: An Introduction to Introductions
June 4th, 2012
On the Shore with Tyrell and Bronxwood
"The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."
June 1st, 2012
Books That Made Us: James and The Giant Peach
May 31st, 2012
Nostalgies: James and The Giant Peach
May 31st, 2012
Marilynne Robinson and the Miraculous Privilege of Existence
"For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."
May 22nd, 2012
Whither Holmes?
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.
May 21st, 2012
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Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Mike Davis
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Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More