Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
On the politics of BBC's Doctor Who
March 30th, 2013
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... 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
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
