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
You Probably Think This Show is About You
January 30th, 2013
Big Boys Don't Cry
February 18th, 2013
Really? Et al?
January 22nd, 2013
Shame and Her Sisters
February 5th, 2013
On the season premiere of HBO's 'Girls'
January 14th, 2013
Experimenting with Plot
March 6th, 2013
Shit Together, or The Coming of Natalia
March 12th, 2013
Grace Notes
February 11th, 2013
Girls Is Not fun.
March 20th, 2013
This was never supposed to be a sexcapade
February 26th, 2013
Revisiting the Beat luminary's radical life and work
January 26th, 2013
It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.
February 15th, 2012
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
