Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's Testimony
The silent war.
June 13th, 2013“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
Ray's Show
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012
Reaching for 'The Heart Of The Matter'
August 5th, 2012
Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
Reading in Prison: 'The Art of War' as Survival Guide
September 9th, 2012
Real Penguins in Imaginary Apartments
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
Reality Hunger: On Lena Dunham's "Girls"
For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.
April 28th, 2012
Recapturing the World with Karl Ove Knausgaard
On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 24th, 2013
Recessionary Measures in Support of Occupy Seattle
Many have been sleeping in money. The money is congregating in the street.
October 21st, 2011
Rediscovering the Half-Forgotten Farms of the Garifuna
January 13th, 2013
Refusal to Cooperate: The Afterlife of "Zeitoun"
On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page.
December 7th, 2012
Reginald Shepherd, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Remembering Maurice Sendak
May 10th, 2012
Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune
Letters to the editor
March 4th, 2013
Revolution Now? The Family Romances of Post-Apocalyptic Media
2012 was a great year for the post-apocalypse.
December 10th, 2012
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