Perched on Nothingness
April 30th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Fix-up Artist: The Chaotic SF of A.E. van Vogt
"The disjointed novel is more in vogue today than at any previous point in history."
April 30th, 2012
Reality Hunger: On Lena Dunham's "Girls"
For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.
April 28th, 2012
Mr. Amis's Planet
Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography.
April 25th, 2012
Weetzie Bat Meets the Genie
"Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."
April 23rd, 2012
Novels Are Not the Only Books
"As soon as I finished reading 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' I wanted to take stock of the Winterson canon."
April 20th, 2012
Death and the Library
I held my father's copy of Mein Kampf in my hand wondering if it should be kept, donated, or set on fire in the backyard.
April 19th, 2012
Who Invented Chaplin's Tramp?
It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.
April 18th, 2012
Rivers of Blood: On Guillermo Fernández García
On the murder of the poet and translator Guillermo Fernández Garcia.
April 18th, 2012
You Say the Swimming Pool's Half Empty, I Say the Swimming Pool's Half Full
Swimming pools, movie stars.
April 18th, 2012
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction.
April 15th, 2012
Video: David Mitchell
Mark Haskell Smith on the flawlessness of David Mitchell.
April 15th, 2012
Video: Student Critics Review a Few Books
April 10th, 2012
Kind Buds
On two new books about the culture of marijuana.
April 2nd, 2012
Voyeuristic Pleasures
Books by Wallace Stroby, Alison Gaylin, Joe R. Lansdale, Hilary Davidson, Chris F. Holm, and Robert Silverberg.
March 31st, 2012
Authors
Percival Everett
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Mike Davis
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Angilee Shah
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Genres
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
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
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More