
Teaching, Shall We Say, Elsewhere: A Response to “The Academy in Peril”
A response to the 'Blow Up the Humanities' symposium
January 12th, 2013
A response to the 'Blow Up the Humanities' symposium
January 12th, 2013
'Memoir begins not with event but with the intuition of meaning...'
January 10th, 2013

On the death and life of great American phone booths
January 9th, 2013
Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exile
January 8th, 2013
Hello, my name is Dyanne A., and I’m a self-published author.
January 6th, 2013
It was you ....
January 5th, 2013
A look back at the year, with an eye toward global domination by 2030
January 3rd, 2013
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012
Creativity and its consequences in China
December 30th, 2012
Tom Waits's Los Angeles
December 29th, 2012
Four new novels aim to constitute a literature of physicality
December 27th, 2012
'Les Misérables' — of the zeitgeist since 1862
December 25th, 2012
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More


"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More



"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More