Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Russia's New Time of Troubles
Russians applauded. They wanted order and didn’t mind if Putin suspended civil rights to provide it.
March 4th, 2012
Recessionary Measures in Support of Occupy Seattle
Many have been sleeping in money. The money is congregating in the street.
October 21st, 2011
Video: Student Critics Review a Few Books
April 10th, 2012
Farewell to Novels
"We all write to understand ourselves and to be understood by others... Or, of course, to be misunderstood."
May 19th, 2012
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
The Other Nancy Mitford
Let’s pretend that we know no more of Nancy Mitford than we do of Shakespeare.
April 20th, 2011
From the Other Coast
On poetry and riot.
December 2nd, 2011
Year of the Fire Cock
The book is so unrelentingly erotic and explicit that it could, if you're not careful, cause chafing.
August 9th, 2011
Letters to the Editors
It is difficult for an author to respond to a review without sounding churlish.
June 18th, 2011
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction.
April 15th, 2012
Video: David Mitchell
Mark Haskell Smith on the flawlessness of David Mitchell.
April 15th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the 2012 Summer Games
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
Answers on a Postcard: British Enthusiasm and the Olympic Dismount
The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games
January 24th, 2013
Answers on a Postcard: Deryn Rees-Jones’s Poetry
A letter from London, on the lyric.
January 24th, 2013
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