
Kind Buds
On two new books about the culture of marijuana.
April 2nd, 2012
On two new books about the culture of marijuana.
April 2nd, 2012
John Lingan on Paul McCartney
July 27th, 2012
On film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
April 17th, 2013


Party Girl vs. Rom-Com Girl
October 1st, 2012
Romney-Dad: Conservatives in Comedy
October 4th, 2012
Of In-Groups and Out-Groups
October 11th, 2012
Leading Ladies?
November 16th, 2012
The high fantasy of a Victorian bestseller
February 13th, 2013
Girls Is Not fun.
March 20th, 2013

on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television.
August 18th, 2011

For all the talk of information overload, we are all of us a little behind on our reading.
June 25th, 2011
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More


"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More