Emily Dickinson, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Elizabeth Bishop, Valentine
February 13th, 2013
Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
Enchantment Dispelled: On Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit'
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
Empire States of Mind: Johnny, Patti, and Jay
On autobiographies by Jay-Z, Patti Smith, and Johnny Ramone
December 7th, 2012
The English Iliad
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
October 30th, 2012
Exploding the Canon: On the African Writers Series
October 16th, 2012
Exile in Girlville: Sex and Sheila Heti
On 'How Should a Person Be?' and the explicit attention to female desire in recent novels, films, and shows
September 27th, 2012
Erika and Envy
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
Envy, or, The Last Infirmity
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
The Embers of April 1992
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
Everything Happened: On "Mad Men"
It is not necessarily a value judgment, then, to say that narrative is, very simply, what Mad Men is about.
March 25th, 2012
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Mike Davis
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Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More