The Hourglass Society
America and its discontents
May 28th, 2013
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
"Behind the Candelabra" and the Queerness of Liberace
Liberace and the closet
May 27th, 2013
The Highbrow Populist: George Plimpton on Film
Plimpton: The Movie
May 26th, 2013
The Night I Danced with Liberace
Onstage with Liberace
May 26th, 2013
When Love Doesn’t Last: Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight"
On Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight"
May 24th, 2013
Recapturing the World with Karl Ove Knausgaard
On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 24th, 2013
A Poem for President Drone
Obama's drone program, journalism and ideology, and 'the role of the half-assed political poet.'
May 23rd, 2013
You’ve Got the Wrong Song: "Nashville" and Country Music Feminism
On ABC's "Nashville" and country music feminism
May 22nd, 2013
Syria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then Fading
On Omar Souleyman
May 20th, 2013
Carousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina
Power wars and populism in Argentina
May 19th, 2013
Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-ha
A primer on the South Korean novelist
May 18th, 2013
If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology
The SAT is an affront to intellectual complexity
May 17th, 2013
Conversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"
Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder"
May 12th, 2013
How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life
Alain de Botton’s School of Life
May 11th, 2013
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