"For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."
May 22nd, 2012
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.
May 21st, 2012
"We all write to understand ourselves and to be understood by others... Or, of course, to be misunderstood."
May 19th, 2012
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly.
May 19th, 2012
"The problem with Krazy Kat is the same as its genius: It cannot be consumed quickly or easily."
May 16th, 2012
"If you're getting the sense that Wave has a different idea of what constitutes a 'book' than other publishers, you're on to something."
May 15th, 2012
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
"On May 6th, a new breed of digital nightingale chirped all night, their echoes sketching a vast and cozy nest all over France."
May 11th, 2012
The alien can be found within us; for proof, we need look no further than the colonies of bacteria proliferating in the crook of the human elbow.
May 9th, 2012
The only way The Hunger Games works as art is if it shows ordinary people being entertained by death. Then it forces the audience to look at itself.
May 8th, 2012
On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'
May 6th, 2012
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
