On ABC's "Nashville" and country music feminism
May 22nd, 2013
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013
Gender performance and the politics of pretend in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
January 28th, 2013
The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
October 31st, 2012
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
December 17th, 2011
We cannot know what we are doing. We can only know when we are doing it wrong.
December 31st, 2011
On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet
August 12th, 2012
On Track and Swimming
August 10th, 2012
The Epilogues
August 13th, 2012
Stories of the 'deep, permanent costs of immigration'
January 23rd, 2013
On the redemptive prose of Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello
August 18th, 2012
On Marriage, Writer’s Block and Transcendence
June 7th, 2012
On following and straying from the 'righteous' path of desire
October 11th, 2012
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