The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's.
September 9th, 2012
'Big data is coming for your books.'
October 28th, 2012
The live stream’s redirection of our attention from single zap action to ongoing occupation parallels precisely the evolution of tactics represented
October 21st, 2011
A primer on the South Korean novelist
May 18th, 2013
Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
August 8th, 2011
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
September 4th, 2011
A response to Glen David Gold’s piece about William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
December 11th, 2011
To the extent he was home anywhere, DFW was at home in the world of math.
November 25th, 2012
On Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
March 14th, 2013
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?
May 11th, 2011
Food could be more than nourishment; it could express ideas about form and function. It could be art.
February 29th, 2012
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