E.E. Cummings, Valentine
February 14th, 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
Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
Elizabeth Bishop, Valentine
February 13th, 2013
Emily Dickinson, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Empire States of Mind: Johnny, Patti, and Jay
On autobiographies by Jay-Z, Patti Smith, and Johnny Ramone
December 7th, 2012
Enchantment Dispelled: On Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit'
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
Envy, or, The Last Infirmity
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
Erika and Envy
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
Etheridge Knight, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Everything Happened: On "Mad Men"
It is not necessarily a value judgment, then, to say that narrative is, very simply, what Mad Men is about.
March 25th, 2012
Exile in Girlville: Sex and Sheila Heti
On 'How Should a Person Be?' and the explicit attention to female desire in recent novels, films, and shows
September 27th, 2012
Exile on Fleet Street
Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
August 8th, 2011
Exploding the Canon: On the African Writers Series
October 16th, 2012
The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
The Educational Lottery
Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States.
November 15th, 2011
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