When it comes to matters of race, L.A. would rather forget.
May 2nd, 2012
How true, how frequent, is the "dead or straight" binary to the lesbian novel at large?
May 2nd, 2012
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
"The disjointed novel is more in vogue today than at any previous point in history."
April 30th, 2012
For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.
April 28th, 2012
Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography.
April 25th, 2012
"Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."
April 23rd, 2012
"As soon as I finished reading 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' I wanted to take stock of the Winterson canon."
April 20th, 2012
I held my father's copy of Mein Kampf in my hand wondering if it should be kept, donated, or set on fire in the backyard.
April 19th, 2012
It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.
April 18th, 2012
On the murder of the poet and translator Guillermo Fernández Garcia.
April 18th, 2012
Swimming pools, movie stars.
April 18th, 2012
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction.
April 15th, 2012
Mark Haskell Smith on the flawlessness of David Mitchell.
April 15th, 2012
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
