On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
October 30th, 2012
On 'Shame,' Salman Rushdie's great "forgotten" novel
November 23rd, 2012
He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life.
December 4th, 2011
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
June 11th, 2012
A Roundtable (Part 1)
June 14th, 2013
A Roundtable (Part 2)
June 15th, 2013
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
August 31st, 2011
A look at his past work and his newest novel, 'Lionel Asbo: State of England'
September 12th, 2012
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction.
April 15th, 2012
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
October 24th, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Stop depositing your soul in the Lake of Fire
October 21st, 2011
Silence was Pleased: From Poem to Film
June 18th, 2013
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
