The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
October 31st, 2012
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
The only way The Hunger Games works as art is if it shows ordinary people being entertained by death. Then it forces the audience to look at itself.
May 8th, 2012
It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.
February 15th, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
The crisis occurred and persists because an alternative was and is mostly unthinkable.
October 17th, 2011
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
August 3rd, 2011
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
