Notes on P.T. Anderson and The Master
January 13th, 2013
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Mentors: Steven Corbin
A reminiscence of his mentor, writing instructor, and friend.
January 7th, 2012
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Rebooting "Evil Dead"
On Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' remake
March 20th, 2013
SXSW Notebook: On Geoff Marslett's Film "Loves Her Gun"
Critics, Firearms, & Trieste Kelly Dunn
March 29th, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Much Ado About What, Exactly? Joss Whedon’s Progressive Bardolatry
On Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' adaptation
April 5th, 2013
Plutocratic Vistas
On America's crisis of Democracy
July 28th, 2012
A Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
In Defense of Data: Responses to Stephen Marche's "Literature is not Data"
Two rebuttals to 'Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities'
November 5th, 2012
A Response to Boer Deng’s “Forgetting Dorothy Wrinch”
April 14th, 2013
Los Angeles: Drawn by Committee
On the power behind the power in postwar LA.
September 23rd, 2012
Life is Short; Art is Shorter
Every life, properly understood, is compelling.
May 2nd, 2011
Still Hungry
On Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station."
August 23rd, 2011
Letter From Guatemala
"Why?" is a question that hounds anyone trying to make sense of the violence against women in Guatemala.
March 29th, 2012
The Fifty Days of the Hotel Madrid
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly.
May 19th, 2012
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