Mailer's false accents — Texas, Patrician, boxer-tough — are like Orson Welles's false noses.
October 3rd, 2011
On realizing a favorite cultural nightmare: the destruction of NYC
November 24th, 2012
Of Master and disciple, an 'unresolved love story'
October 20th, 2012
if you self-publish, you’re branded a sinner of sorts.
March 17th, 2012
A symptom?! Why does a book celebrating the talents of individual Los Angeles artists suddenly go all Fernand Braudel on us
November 11th, 2011
The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games
January 24th, 2013
A letter from London, on the lyric.
January 24th, 2013
Who, or what, is the 'shiksa'?
March 3rd, 2013
These unanticipated truffles hiding deep in the gratin dauphinois of Gopnik's larger story remind us that food permeates every facet of our lives.
November 3rd, 2011
If you spot in the financial crisis something of the epic, you are not mistaken.
July 18th, 2011
Tintin est Mort!
December 27th, 2011
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... 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
"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
