
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen



On Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism.
October 11th, 2011

"On May 6th, a new breed of digital nightingale chirped all night, their echoes sketching a vast and cozy nest all over France."
May 11th, 2012

2012 was a great year for the post-apocalypse.
December 10th, 2012
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
July 3rd, 2012
Philip Roth, baseball, and giving up fiction for good
February 9th, 2013
"The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."
June 1st, 2012
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012
It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.
February 15th, 2012
An experimental essay on the potential of writing.
September 23rd, 2012
During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S.
August 26th, 2012
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More