The Blue Lady is Back: Appreciating Dodger Stadium Again
March 31st, 2013
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel
March 21st, 2013
Bringing Chaos to Order: On Kurt Vonnegut's Literary Remains
On Kurt Vonnegut's literary remains
February 24th, 2013
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
Books in an Expanded Field: The Story of Badlands Unlimited
On Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited publishing
February 8th, 2013
A Broad's Laugh: On Pauline Kael
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
A Born Fantasist: On Henry Green's "Loving"
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013
Becoming Story: The State of the Memoir
'Memoir begins not with event but with the intuition of meaning...'
January 10th, 2013
Between The Red Lines: An American Writer in China
Creativity and its consequences in China
December 30th, 2012
The Ballad Continues: On Nan Goldin
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
December 23rd, 2012
Barbarism in Cultured Soil: Rushdie’s Great Pakistani Novel
On 'Shame,' Salman Rushdie's great "forgotten" novel
November 23rd, 2012
Barnes without Barnes: on Philadelphia's New Barnes Foundation
August 23rd, 2012
Brief Lives: The Short Stories of Julie Hayden
On her one and only book, 'The Lists of the Past'
August 22nd, 2012
The Buffalo and Ernest Borgnine
I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
August 20th, 2012
Ben-Gore
August 1st, 2012
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