The Wrong Marlowe
Let’s say it’s 1978 and you are Dan J. Marlowe, once one of the hottest suspense novelists of your day
March 10th, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Wages of Narrative
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
The Writers that Shadow Us
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
January 4th, 2012
Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator?
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
December 17th, 2011
Welcome to the Occupations
Everywhere but here.
October 15th, 2011
Wunderkind
on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television.
August 18th, 2011
Why to Take Notes
Things Iowa Workshop Writers Say
July 30th, 2011
Whose Hollywood Is It Anyway?
The most satisfying literary conflicts allow all antagonists to be right, each in his own way.
June 15th, 2011
What Was African American Literature? A Symposium
Warren leaves us with several productively troubling conclusions.
June 13th, 2011
Where the Action Was
This was the canonical American art for which the claim "you had to be there" seemed strongest ...
May 19th, 2011
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Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Mike Davis
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jayne Cortez
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Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More