The Night I Danced with Liberace
Onstage with Liberace
May 26th, 2013“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
No Land’s Man: Edward Everett Hale’s “The Man Without A Country” Turns 150
On Hale's 'The Man Without A Country'
March 24th, 2013
Nicholas Ray Couldn’t Go Home Again: On the DVD Release of His Final Film
February 21st, 2013
Natalie Diaz, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Notes on P.T. Anderson and The Master
January 13th, 2013
Nothing More American: On James M. Cain
On the noir master's place in American fiction's 'shadow pantheon'
December 10th, 2012
New Girl & The Mindy Project: Ep. 10 "Bathtub" / Ep. 8 "Two to One"
The Business of Being Born
December 7th, 2012
New Girl & The Mindy Project: Ep. 9 "Eggs" / Ep. 7 "Teen Patient"
"What If You Guys Had A Baby?"
November 29th, 2012
New Girl & The Mindy Project: Thanksgiving Special
November 21st, 2012
New Girl & The Mindy Project: The Gender Games
Leading Ladies?
November 16th, 2012
New Girl and The Mindy Project: The Sitcom Special
'Good Grief'
October 31st, 2012
New Girl: "Models"
Go Back to Start, Do Not Pass Go
October 27th, 2012
The Nature of Cinderella
There is no one authoritative tale of Cinderella, only a hall of mirrors...
July 9th, 2012
Nightmarish Glimpses of Our Inner Selves
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
June 12th, 2012
Nostalgies: James and The Giant Peach
May 31st, 2012
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