Levitated Mass Hysteria: Michael Heizer's LACMA Installation
On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Café and the Unfinished Revolution
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
In Praise of Messy Thinking: On Katie Roiphe
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
The Ghost of Wrath
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
No More Bubblegum
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011
The Embers of April 1992
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Origins of the Book of Mormon
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
October 30th, 2012
The Puck Stops Here: A Hockey Lit Survey
November 11th, 2012
Fight to the Death: Who Killed Davey Moore?
On the life and legacy of a champion boxer
March 21st, 2013
Hip-Hop-Academia: Omar Offendum and Arab Diaspora Rap
September 16th, 2012
Letter From Cairo
Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes.
December 5th, 2011
A Response to Boer Deng’s “Forgetting Dorothy Wrinch”
April 14th, 2013
Federico García Lorca, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Jay McInerney, the New York Fantasy, and Wine
A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012
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