Walking Mural: Asco and the Ends of Chicano Art
August 23rd, 2012
“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
Barnes without Barnes: on Philadelphia's New Barnes Foundation
August 23rd, 2012
The Mark of Capone: Chicago Violence Then and Now
August 23rd, 2012
Brief Lives: The Short Stories of Julie Hayden
On her one and only book, 'The Lists of the Past'
August 22nd, 2012
The Buffalo and Ernest Borgnine
I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
August 20th, 2012
Consolation from Chaos: on playwright and novelist Luigi Pirandello
On the redemptive prose of Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello
August 18th, 2012
The Café and the Unfinished Revolution
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
Hubris and Envy: The Lehrer Affair
A very different take on l‘affaire Lehrer
August 14th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
The Epilogues
August 13th, 2012
Wilde in the Office
August 12th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 6)
On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet
August 12th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 5)
On Track and Swimming
August 10th, 2012
Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves
On 'the lake has no saint' by Stacey Waite
August 9th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 4)
On Trampoline and Women's Boxing
August 7th, 2012
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