
Not Pretty: On Edith Wharton and Jonathan Franzen
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
We cannot know what we are doing. We can only know when we are doing it wrong.
December 31st, 2011
A Hack comic is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, “poking fun,” never “killing.” He is the jester who won’t risk the king’s displeasure.
November 20th, 2011
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
Does this movement want to curb the plutocrats? Or does it just want to be?
October 21st, 2011
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011

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