"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
On buildings, plots, and mourning at Ground Zero.
September 11th, 2011
It is not necessarily a value judgment, then, to say that narrative is, very simply, what Mad Men is about.
March 25th, 2012
The writer is king on television, in part because Aaron Sorkin staged a coup.
July 8th, 2012
Groove is in the Heart
September 26th, 2012
Moby-Nick, or The Whale Belt
October 5th, 2012
How To Crush It
October 12th, 2012
On Ryan Murphy's maximalist melodrama and the possibilities of 'anthology' TV
October 15th, 2012
Go Back to Start, Do Not Pass Go
October 27th, 2012
'Good Grief'
October 31st, 2012
Leading Ladies?
November 16th, 2012
"What If You Guys Had A Baby?"
November 29th, 2012
The Business of Being Born
December 7th, 2012
On the season premiere of HBO's 'Girls'
January 14th, 2013
Really? Et al?
January 22nd, 2013
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