Parvenucracy: On "Downton Abbey"
Some Thoughts on My Downton Abbey Obsession (and Yours) As We Wait Between Seasons 2 and 3
July 29th, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot
On 'Hitchcock' and the enduring mysteries of 'Psycho'
December 20th, 2012
Exploding the Canon: On the African Writers Series
October 16th, 2012
Remembering Maurice Sendak
May 10th, 2012
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
A Portis Reader
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
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
Autumn of the Empire
If you spot in the financial crisis something of the epic, you are not mistaken.
July 18th, 2011
Brumaire
On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.
November 13th, 2011
Percentages, Politics, and the Police
Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything.
October 15th, 2011
Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune
Letters to the editor
March 4th, 2013
Nightmarish Glimpses of Our Inner Selves
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
June 12th, 2012
If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology
The SAT is an affront to intellectual complexity
May 17th, 2013
Ruminations on Riots
When it comes to matters of race, L.A. would rather forget.
May 2nd, 2012
The Great Shock
The crisis occurred and persists because an alternative was and is mostly unthinkable.
October 17th, 2011
Books
Authors
Charles Yu
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Mike Davis
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Genres
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More