Notes on P.T. Anderson and The Master
January 13th, 2013
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Mentors: Steven Corbin
A reminiscence of his mentor, writing instructor, and friend.
January 7th, 2012
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Rebooting "Evil Dead"
On Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' remake
March 20th, 2013
SXSW Notebook: On Geoff Marslett's Film "Loves Her Gun"
Critics, Firearms, & Trieste Kelly Dunn
March 29th, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Much Ado About What, Exactly? Joss Whedon’s Progressive Bardolatry
On Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' adaptation
April 5th, 2013
Post-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season Four
On Netflix's 'semi-original series,' après le déluge
June 2nd, 2013
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)
A Roundtable (Part 1)
June 14th, 2013
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)
A Roundtable (Part 2)
June 15th, 2013
Plutocratic Vistas
On America's crisis of Democracy
July 28th, 2012
A Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
In Defense of Data: Responses to Stephen Marche's "Literature is not Data"
Two rebuttals to 'Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities'
November 5th, 2012
A Response to Boer Deng’s “Forgetting Dorothy Wrinch”
April 14th, 2013
Los Angeles: Drawn by Committee
On the power behind the power in postwar LA.
September 23rd, 2012
Life is Short; Art is Shorter
Every life, properly understood, is compelling.
May 2nd, 2011
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jon Wiener
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Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More