It’s hard not to read this as a profession of artistic faith, of Schulz’s conviction in an art made out of scraps and remnants.
March 2nd, 2012
Today in China, individualism and pluralism thrive as never before. But, all in all, it is an opportunistic and self-regarding individualism.
March 1st, 2012
Food could be more than nourishment; it could express ideas about form and function. It could be art.
February 29th, 2012
Mamoulian, perhaps more than anyone else, defined the original racial landscape that became the setting for Porgy and Bess.
February 28th, 2012
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
February 24th, 2012
on Christianity and homosexuality
February 23rd, 2012
Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.
February 18th, 2012
It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.
February 15th, 2012
The Prop 8 trial is, in fact, one of the greatest stories of our time.
February 12th, 2012
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
On the American culture of accumulation, and the author's addiction to A&E’s "Storage Wars."
February 4th, 2012
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington.
January 23rd, 2012
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
