I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
August 20th, 2012
If you spot in the financial crisis something of the epic, you are not mistaken.
July 18th, 2011
On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.
November 13th, 2011
Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything.
October 15th, 2011
Letters to the editor
March 4th, 2013
The SAT is an affront to intellectual complexity
May 17th, 2013
When it comes to matters of race, L.A. would rather forget.
May 2nd, 2012
The crisis occurred and persists because an alternative was and is mostly unthinkable.
October 17th, 2011
On 'Portrait of a Novel,' a biography of Henry James.
December 1st, 2012
On the director's enigmatic obsessions.
August 28th, 2012
On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"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
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
