Gollum's Mother: On Marie Corelli
The high fantasy of a Victorian bestseller
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Los Angeles Review of Books
Good Germans: On Heinrich Böll
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
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Goodbye, Cinema: On Jonathan Rosenbaum
On film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
April 17th, 2013
The Gaza Poetry Roundtable: Part III
Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation
December 2nd, 2012
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
The Ghost of Wrath
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
The Gorey Details
The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
October 31st, 2012
The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
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The Great Shock
The crisis occurred and persists because an alternative was and is mostly unthinkable.
October 17th, 2011
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