Where the Action Was
This was the canonical American art for which the claim "you had to be there" seemed strongest ...
May 19th, 2011“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Whither Feminism?: Gender and The New Normal
On 'The End of Men,' 'Vagina,' and 'Gaga Feminism'
October 7th, 2012
Whither Holmes?
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.
May 21st, 2012
Who Invented Chaplin's Tramp?
It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.
April 18th, 2012
Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves
On 'the lake has no saint' by Stacey Waite
August 9th, 2012
Whose Hollywood Is It Anyway?
The most satisfying literary conflicts allow all antagonists to be right, each in his own way.
June 15th, 2011
Why to Take Notes
Things Iowa Workshop Writers Say
July 30th, 2011
Wilde in the Office
August 12th, 2012
Writing in Place: Projections of Landscape
On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'
April 26th, 2013
Wunderkind
on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television.
August 18th, 2011
Books
Authors
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Percival Everett
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Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More