Today in China, individualism and pluralism thrive as never before. But, all in all, it is an opportunistic and self-regarding individualism.
March 1st, 2012
On Abel Gance's five and half hour silent film, 'Napoleon'
July 19th, 2012
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
On autobiographies by Jay-Z, Patti Smith, and Johnny Ramone
December 7th, 2012
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
It is not necessarily a value judgment, then, to say that narrative is, very simply, what Mad Men is about.
March 25th, 2012
On 'How Should a Person Be?' and the explicit attention to female desire in recent novels, films, and shows
September 27th, 2012
Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
August 8th, 2011
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
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