Liberace and the closet
May 27th, 2013
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
"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 nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
