Giving Everything: On Diane di Prima
Revisiting the Beat luminary's radical life and work
January 26th, 2013“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
YAC HIT LIST: Teen Girl Movies
Kirsten Smith rounds up her favorite Teen Girl Movies
April 12th, 2013
Writing in Place: Projections of Landscape
On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'
April 26th, 2013
The Poems (We Think) We Know: Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”
On Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus"
April 2nd, 2013
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry
The anatomy of a second book of poems
November 10th, 2012
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
Second books of poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
December 15th, 2012
Mentors: James Baldwin
He missed the first class. In fact, he missed the first three.
January 6th, 2012
Impersonating Ourselves
It's no wonder that we are often confused by impostors, delighted by sock puppets, and relieved — most of us, anyway — that we remain singular.
January 14th, 2012
Halloween Fiction Roundtable
October 31st, 2012
Righting the Gun Debate
February 10th, 2013
Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer
May 5th, 2013
A Born Fantasist: On Henry Green's "Loving"
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013
You Better Work; or, How to Tell Friends from Faux: On "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Gender performance and the politics of pretend in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
January 28th, 2013
The Gorey Details
The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
October 31st, 2012
Crete Spring: An Appreciation for James Hillman (1926 - 2011)
January 29th, 2012
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Percival Everett
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