Fight to the Death: Who Killed Davey Moore?
On the life and legacy of a champion boxer
March 21st, 2013
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
For Jayne Cortez, R.I.P.
It was you ....
January 5th, 2013
Film History: Columnists and Historians Assess Spielberg’s "Lincoln"
This story of emancipation is woefully incomplete. How could it be otherwise?
December 14th, 2012
Fashion and the Romantic
On fashion's long love affair with Romanticism
December 2nd, 2012
Feminist Nudity? Video Consent? Moral Panic?
On the Karina Bolaños affair
August 23rd, 2012
For Future Friends of Walter Benjamin
On the life and flourishing posthumous reputation of Walter Benjamin.
July 26th, 2012
Five Thrillers for the Summer
All thriller, no filler
June 27th, 2012
Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
June 26th, 2012
Fairy Tales about the Modern World
"He transcended genre and became a genre of one; often emulated, absolutely inimitable."
June 11th, 2012
Farewell to Novels
"We all write to understand ourselves and to be understood by others... Or, of course, to be misunderstood."
May 19th, 2012
The Fifty Days of the Hotel Madrid
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly.
May 19th, 2012
The France of Yes and the France of No: Sunday's Presidential Elections
On Sunday, French voters will go to the polls to decide whether Sarkozy, the incumbent, or François Hollande, the poll favorite, will be president.
May 4th, 2012
Fix-up Artist: The Chaotic SF of A.E. van Vogt
"The disjointed novel is more in vogue today than at any previous point in history."
April 30th, 2012
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