
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen


On Geoff Dyer and Andrei Tarkovsky, 'cinema's great poet of stillness'
July 12th, 2012

There is no one authoritative tale of Cinderella, only a hall of mirrors...
July 9th, 2012
The writer is king on television, in part because Aaron Sorkin staged a coup.
July 8th, 2012

Free Period
July 7th, 2012
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
July 3rd, 2012
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
July 2nd, 2012
Rest in Peace, Rodney.
July 2nd, 2012
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
June 30th, 2012
The inevitability of politics.
June 29th, 2012
All thriller, no filler
June 27th, 2012
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
June 26th, 2012
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More