The SAT is an affront to intellectual complexity
May 17th, 2013
Remembering the American comics artist and editor
April 27th, 2013
The evolution of the flâneur
February 2nd, 2013
A look back at the year, with an eye toward global domination by 2030
January 3rd, 2013
Tom Waits's Los Angeles
December 29th, 2012
On Los Angeles's Gang Tours
November 26th, 2012
To the extent he was home anywhere, DFW was at home in the world of math.
November 25th, 2012
Two rebuttals to 'Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities'
November 5th, 2012
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
October 24th, 2012
On the magazine’s frequent, and frequently controversial, articles about gender issues.
September 10th, 2012
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
Walter White's Rebellion
July 13th, 2012
"L.A. hip hop, like the punk and skateboarding subcultures of the 1970s, had sprouted from the imaginations of forgotten kids..."
May 3rd, 2012
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... 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
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
