Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Girls: "It's a Shame About Ray"
Shame and Her Sisters
February 5th, 2013
Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, W.G. Sebald, and the Alienated Cosmopolitan
The evolution of the flâneur
February 2nd, 2013
A Broad's Laugh: On Pauline Kael
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
When the Lights Shut Off: Kendrick Lamar and the Decline of the Black Blues Narrative
Autobiography and memento mori from hip-hop's rising memoirist
January 31st, 2013
Girls: "Bad Friend"
You Probably Think This Show is About You
January 30th, 2013
You Better Work; or, How to Tell Friends from Faux: On "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Gender performance and the politics of pretend in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
January 28th, 2013
"Pride & Prejudice" Forever
Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's masterpiece
January 27th, 2013
The State of the Union of Jane Austen, Fact and Fiction
January 27th, 2013
Giving Everything: On Diane di Prima
Revisiting the Beat luminary's radical life and work
January 26th, 2013
Answers on a Postcard: British Enthusiasm and the Olympic Dismount
The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games
January 24th, 2013
Answers on a Postcard: Deryn Rees-Jones’s Poetry
A letter from London, on the lyric.
January 24th, 2013
Reyna Grande on Immigration’s Toll
Stories of the 'deep, permanent costs of immigration'
January 23rd, 2013
Girls: "I Get Ideas"
Really? Et al?
January 22nd, 2013
Cicero’s Tongue: Beyond “I Have a Dream”
Awakening A Dreaming, Comfortable King
January 21st, 2013
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Television
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Biography & Autobiography
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Film
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Percival Everett
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