On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
October 30th, 2012
On the life and legacy of a champion boxer
March 21st, 2013
Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes.
December 5th, 2011
A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
