On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
October 30th, 2012
On the life and legacy of a champion boxer
March 21st, 2013
Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes.
December 5th, 2011
A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012
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