We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the 2012 Summer Games
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
The Epilogues
August 13th, 2012
Lynn Emanuel, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Letter from London: Soot and Ash
Once you begin to look for influences, they seem to be everywhere — in the weather, in politics, in literature and art.
August 22nd, 2011
YA Fiction and the End of Boys
November 8th, 2012
Whither Holmes?
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.
May 21st, 2012
Molly Ringwald on "When It Happens to You"
I always feel much calmer when my characters are in turmoil
November 29th, 2012
What Was African American Literature? A Symposium
Warren leaves us with several productively troubling conclusions.
June 13th, 2011
Decay is the Way Dead Things Live
It’s hard not to read this as a profession of artistic faith, of Schulz’s conviction in an art made out of scraps and remnants.
March 2nd, 2012
Sculpting in Time: Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky
On Geoff Dyer and Andrei Tarkovsky, 'cinema's great poet of stillness'
July 12th, 2012
American Caliban: On P.T. Anderson’s ‘The Master’
Of Master and disciple, an 'unresolved love story'
October 20th, 2012
Feminist Nudity? Video Consent? Moral Panic?
On the Karina Bolaños affair
August 23rd, 2012
Teaching, Shall We Say, Elsewhere: A Response to “The Academy in Peril”
A response to the 'Blow Up the Humanities' symposium
January 12th, 2013
Light In Translation: On Spencer Finch
Revisiting the poetry of past installations
December 3rd, 2012
Video: Student Critics Review a Few Books
April 10th, 2012
Books
Authors
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Genres
SF
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Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Comics
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Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More