On Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' adaptation
April 5th, 2013
On America's crisis of Democracy
July 28th, 2012
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
Two rebuttals to 'Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities'
November 5th, 2012
On the power behind the power in postwar LA.
September 23rd, 2012
Every life, properly understood, is compelling.
May 2nd, 2011
On Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station."
August 23rd, 2011
"Why?" is a question that hounds anyone trying to make sense of the violence against women in Guatemala.
March 29th, 2012
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly.
May 19th, 2012
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
Russians applauded. They wanted order and didn’t mind if Putin suspended civil rights to provide it.
March 4th, 2012
Many have been sleeping in money. The money is congregating in the street.
October 21st, 2011
"We all write to understand ourselves and to be understood by others... Or, of course, to be misunderstood."
May 19th, 2012
Let’s pretend that we know no more of Nancy Mitford than we do of Shakespeare.
April 20th, 2011
On poetry and riot.
December 2nd, 2011
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
