Video: Student Critics Review a Few Books
April 10th, 2012
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Henry James Is Bigger Than That
On 'Portrait of a Novel,' a biography of Henry James.
December 1st, 2012
Werner Herzog Hypnotizes Chickens
On the director's enigmatic obsessions.
August 28th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 6)
On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet
August 12th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
The Epilogues
August 13th, 2012
Games of a Last Chance: Chris Marker’s Olympics
March 29th, 2013
The Night I Danced with Liberace
Onstage with Liberace
May 26th, 2013Video
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