Skylight Series, Ep. 4: DT Max
October 23rd, 2012
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Skylight Series, Ep. 3: Emma Straub
October 3rd, 2012
Twilight of the Boosters
On Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism.
October 11th, 2011
Nostalgies: James and The Giant Peach
May 31st, 2012
Digital Democracy: Inside the French Presidential Elections
"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
Katrina Media: The Arts of HBO's "Treme" in the Aftermath of Trauma
September 23rd, 2012
Revolution Now? The Family Romances of Post-Apocalyptic Media
2012 was a great year for the post-apocalypse.
December 10th, 2012
My Stephen King Problem: A Snob’s Notes
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
July 3rd, 2012
Leaving the Field: On Giving Up Fiction For Good
Philip Roth, baseball, and giving up fiction for good
February 9th, 2013
On the Shore with Tyrell and Bronxwood
"The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."
June 1st, 2012
Let Us Not to Our Readers Condescend
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012
Golden Eye
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 Sum of Two Cubes (And the Uses of Literature)
An experimental essay on the potential of writing.
September 23rd, 2012
"Behind the Candelabra" and the Queerness of Liberace
Liberace and the closet
May 27th, 2013
Letter From Bolivia: Waiting With the Aymará
During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S.
August 26th, 2012
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