Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's masterpiece
January 27th, 2013
'Boardwalk Empire, 'The Sopranos,' and The Great American Crime Drama.
December 2nd, 2012
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
The only way The Hunger Games works as art is if it shows ordinary people being entertained by death. Then it forces the audience to look at itself.
May 8th, 2012
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
Obama's drone program, journalism and ideology, and 'the role of the half-assed political poet.'
May 23rd, 2013
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
'Twin Peaks,' 'The Killing," lost girls, and the female detective story
April 6th, 2013
It is ironic that Ovid had barely finished his long poem when his exile was decreed.
November 24th, 2011
On the poetry of archery
July 28th, 2012
The education of a screenwriter
November 21st, 2012
"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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
