A Hack comic is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, “poking fun,” never “killing.” He is the jester who won’t risk the king’s displeasure.
November 20th, 2011
We cannot know what we are doing. We can only know when we are doing it wrong.
December 31st, 2011
On the noir master's place in American fiction's 'shadow pantheon'
December 10th, 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
Four new novels aim to constitute a literature of physicality
December 27th, 2012
Stop depositing your soul in the Lake of Fire
October 21st, 2011
For all the talk of information overload, we are all of us a little behind on our reading.
June 25th, 2011
The writer is king on television, in part because Aaron Sorkin staged a coup.
July 8th, 2012
"The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."
June 1st, 2012
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical
December 25th, 2012
Andy Griffith and the Humor of Mourning
April 20th, 2013
I would come to the Parker novels with fresh, innocent eyes, like a newborn fawn staring at the world for the first time, or at a pair of headlights.
October 14th, 2011
On the killing of the 33-year-old amateur photographer
February 23rd, 2013
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