
Film History: Columnists and Historians Assess Spielberg’s "Lincoln"
This story of emancipation is woefully incomplete. How could it be otherwise?
December 14th, 2012
This story of emancipation is woefully incomplete. How could it be otherwise?
December 14th, 2012
On the noir master's place in American fiction's 'shadow pantheon'
December 10th, 2012
2012 was a great year for the post-apocalypse.
December 10th, 2012

The Business of Being Born
December 7th, 2012
On autobiographies by Jay-Z, Patti Smith, and Johnny Ramone
December 7th, 2012
On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page.
December 7th, 2012
On Laird Hunt's fractured narratives and his latest novel 'Kind One'
December 3rd, 2012
Revisiting the poetry of past installations
December 3rd, 2012
Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation
December 2nd, 2012
'Boardwalk Empire, 'The Sopranos,' and The Great American Crime Drama.
December 2nd, 2012
On fashion's long love affair with Romanticism
December 2nd, 2012
On 'Portrait of a Novel,' a biography of Henry James.
December 1st, 2012
"What If You Guys Had A Baby?"
November 29th, 2012
I always feel much calmer when my characters are in turmoil
November 29th, 2012
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