Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation
December 2nd, 2012
Andy Griffith and the Humor of Mourning
April 20th, 2013
The blurring of lines between the digital realm and reality, especially in a time of war, has very real psychological effects.
March 22nd, 2012
Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.
February 18th, 2012
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.
August 27th, 2011
"He transcended genre and became a genre of one; often emulated, absolutely inimitable."
June 11th, 2012
On the poetry of archery
July 28th, 2012
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
Reconsidering the 37th president
May 1st, 2013
Some doors opened, were squeezed through, then slammed shut, trapping women like Blew in lives filled with unprecedented challenges.
October 22nd, 2011
By Nightfall, like The Hours, is chock full of literary reference, especially Thomas Mann (Death in Venice), not Virginia Woolf.
November 19th, 2011
On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'
May 6th, 2012
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
June 30th, 2012
On 'Train Dreams,' 'The Life of an Unknown Man,' and 'Cruel'
July 30th, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
