A Born Fantasist: On Henry Green's "Loving"
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
A Broad's Laugh: On Pauline Kael
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
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
Be Thou the Voice
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
September 8th, 2011
Becoming Story: The State of the Memoir
'Memoir begins not with event but with the intuition of meaning...'
January 10th, 2013
Ben-Gore
August 1st, 2012
Between the Georges
He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life.
December 4th, 2011
Between The Red Lines: An American Writer in China
Creativity and its consequences in China
December 30th, 2012
Big Tent
As the tent city grows, a community has sprouted, igniting human interaction in ways that are often anathema to Los Angeles’s sprawl.
November 12th, 2011
Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill
An offshore oil platform stood up out of its windward end like the metal handle of a dagger that had stabbed the world and made it spill black blood.
April 22nd, 2011
Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel
March 21st, 2013
Books in an Expanded Field: The Story of Badlands Unlimited
On Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited publishing
February 8th, 2013
Books That Made Us: Charlotte’s Web
Sometimes a book comes along and you feel so lucky that somebody pressed it into your hands to read that you read it right away.
August 24th, 2011
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