On Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited publishing
February 8th, 2013
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times
June 22nd, 2012
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
October 30th, 2012
On 'Shame,' Salman Rushdie's great "forgotten" novel
November 23rd, 2012
He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life.
December 4th, 2011
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
June 11th, 2012
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
August 31st, 2011
A look at his past work and his newest novel, 'Lionel Asbo: State of England'
September 12th, 2012
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
October 24th, 2012
Stop depositing your soul in the Lake of Fire
October 21st, 2011
The inevitability of politics.
June 29th, 2012
On the politicization of Wilder, author of 'Little House on the Prairie'
October 10th, 2012
When asked which I might recommend that may have passed readers' notice, I settled on work by Jill Ciment and Jane Gardam.
August 29th, 2011
Bainbridge’s point is that modernity will tell us little and the people who record it, even less.
March 3rd, 2012
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"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
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
