The Mark of Capone: Chicago Violence Then and Now
August 23rd, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Marriage Prop
The Prop 8 trial is, in fact, one of the greatest stories of our time.
February 12th, 2012
The Memory Hole Riot and Rodney King
Rest in Peace, Rodney.
July 2nd, 2012
The MFA Octopus: Four Questions about Creative Writing
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?
May 11th, 2011
The Mormon Candidate
Mitt Romney has described his faith as “the single most important influence in his life.” He did not go into details.
August 26th, 2012
The Mormon Chronicles: A Meditation in Four Parts
August 26th, 2012
The Most Romantic Story Ever Told
On 'Beauty and the Beast'
October 11th, 2012
The Most Versatile of Mystics
On insiders, outsiders, and the debate over Sri Ramakrishna’s sexuality.
October 6th, 2011
The Mysterious Island
I'm writing this because I just found out that my favorite bookseller in the world is dead.
June 11th, 2011
The Natural
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
The Nature of Cinderella
There is no one authoritative tale of Cinderella, only a hall of mirrors...
July 9th, 2012
The Other Nancy Mitford
Let’s pretend that we know no more of Nancy Mitford than we do of Shakespeare.
April 20th, 2011
The Paradox of Pluck: How Did Historical Fiction Become the New Feminist History?
September 30th, 2012
The Phantom Phone Booth
On the death and life of great American phone booths
January 9th, 2013
The Poems (We Think) We Know: Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”
On Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus"
April 2nd, 2013
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