"Pride & Prejudice" Forever
Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's masterpiece
January 27th, 2013“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
"You Can’t Be Half a Gangster": On "Boardwalk Empire"
'Boardwalk Empire, 'The Sopranos,' and The Great American Crime Drama.
December 2nd, 2012
21st Century Vindications of Darwin
July 31st, 2012
A Born Fantasist: On Henry Green's "Loving"
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013
A Broad's Laugh: On Pauline Kael
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
A Grosser Power: A Contrarian Look at The Hunger Games
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
A Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
A Portis Reader
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
A Response to Boer Deng’s “Forgetting Dorothy Wrinch”
April 14th, 2013
A Response to Matvei Yankelevich
July 16th, 2012
A Scandal in Paradise: On “Top of the Lake”
'Twin Peaks,' 'The Killing," lost girls, and the female detective story
April 6th, 2013
A Serious Man Whose Love Will Last
It is ironic that Ovid had barely finished his long poem when his exile was decreed.
November 24th, 2011
A Sport of Restraint
On the poetry of archery
July 28th, 2012
A Three Act Journey in the Land of the Screenwriting Gurus
The education of a screenwriter
November 21st, 2012
A Tribute to Eric Hobsbawm: 1917 - 2012
Jon Wiener reflects on the passing of a Marxist scholar and historian.
October 4th, 2012
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