This play unfolds, as so many contemporary dramas now do, over the medium of email.
November 25th, 2011
Reconsidering the 37th president
May 1st, 2013
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
October 27th, 2012
"On May 6th, a new breed of digital nightingale chirped all night, their echoes sketching a vast and cozy nest all over France."
May 11th, 2012
On 'Train Dreams,' 'The Life of an Unknown Man,' and 'Cruel'
July 30th, 2012
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
June 30th, 2012
On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'
May 6th, 2012
Interviews with John Heilemann, E.J. Dionne, Sean Wilentz and Rep. John Lewis
September 6th, 2012
Concluding Commentary
September 7th, 2012
On the politics of BBC's Doctor Who
March 30th, 2013
Today in China, individualism and pluralism thrive as never before. But, all in all, it is an opportunistic and self-regarding individualism.
March 1st, 2012
On Abel Gance's five and half hour silent film, 'Napoleon'
July 19th, 2012
Pity the book. It’s dead again.
April 18th, 2011
Poetry, feminism, and Austin's BookWoman bookstore
April 20th, 2013
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
