Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
On the politics of BBC's Doctor Who
March 30th, 2013
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
