A Response to Matvei Yankelevich
July 16th, 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
The Space Between the Lines Is Your Life
On neuroplasticity and narrative
July 15th, 2012
How to Read a Prophecy
On 'Voyager' and 'Address' by Srikanth Reddy and Elizabeth Willis
July 14th, 2012
In Hell, "We Shall Be Free": On "Breaking Bad"
Walter White's Rebellion
July 13th, 2012
The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
July 13th, 2012
Sculpting in Time: Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky
On Geoff Dyer and Andrei Tarkovsky, 'cinema's great poet of stillness'
July 12th, 2012
The Imagination of Norman Manea
July 11th, 2012
The Nature of Cinderella
There is no one authoritative tale of Cinderella, only a hall of mirrors...
July 9th, 2012
Old Media: On Aaron Sorkin
The writer is king on television, in part because Aaron Sorkin staged a coup.
July 8th, 2012
China Future
July 8th, 2012
LARBlog: Castellucci’s Class Notes
Free Period
July 7th, 2012
My Stephen King Problem: A Snob’s Notes
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
July 3rd, 2012
What’s Wrong With a Happy Childhood?
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
July 2nd, 2012
The Memory Hole Riot and Rodney King
Rest in Peace, Rodney.
July 2nd, 2012
Salvage Operations
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
Books
Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More