The Potter voice: that mock-pedantic tone of winning modesty and warm condescension.
May 18th, 2011
On Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station."
August 23rd, 2011
on Christianity and homosexuality
February 23rd, 2012
The alien can be found within us; for proof, we need look no further than the colonies of bacteria proliferating in the crook of the human elbow.
May 9th, 2012
A response to Glen David Gold’s piece about William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
December 11th, 2011
The inevitability of politics.
June 29th, 2012
On Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' adaptation
April 5th, 2013
On Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' remake
March 20th, 2013
Critics, Firearms, & Trieste Kelly Dunn
March 29th, 2013
On Omar Souleyman
May 20th, 2013
A Year in Wine and Poems
April 19th, 2013
A response to the 'Blow Up the Humanities' symposium
January 12th, 2013
Tintin est Mort!
December 27th, 2011
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