Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition
February 14th, 2013
“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
Pablo Neruda, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Exile on Fleet Street
Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
August 8th, 2011
Letter from London: Lost in the Supermarket
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
September 4th, 2011
Sucker Punch
A response to Glen David Gold’s piece about William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
December 11th, 2011
Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace
To the extent he was home anywhere, DFW was at home in the world of math.
November 25th, 2012
Percentages, Politics, and the Police
Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything.
October 15th, 2011
Elizabeth Bishop, Valentine
February 13th, 2013
The Woman Behind "Parade's End"
On Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
March 14th, 2013
Privatizing Paradise in the Murder Capital of the World
November 18th, 2012
The MFA Octopus: Four Questions about Creative Writing
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?
May 11th, 2011
Finer Dining Through Chemistry
Food could be more than nourishment; it could express ideas about form and function. It could be art.
February 29th, 2012
Strawberries on Life Support
The alien can be found within us; for proof, we need look no further than the colonies of bacteria proliferating in the crook of the human elbow.
May 9th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 4)
On Trampoline and Women's Boxing
August 7th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the 2012 Summer Games
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
Authors
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Percival Everett
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Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
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Comics
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