Obesity as Metaphor
Four new novels aim to constitute a literature of physicality
December 27th, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer
May 5th, 2013
Occupy Los Angeles Saturday October 15
Stop depositing your soul in the Lake of Fire
October 21st, 2011
Odious and Unpleasant
For all the talk of information overload, we are all of us a little behind on our reading.
June 25th, 2011
Old Media: On Aaron Sorkin
The writer is king on television, in part because Aaron Sorkin staged a coup.
July 8th, 2012
On the Shore with Tyrell and Bronxwood
"The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."
June 1st, 2012
Oscar and “Les Miz”
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical
December 25th, 2012
Our Town: Andy Griffith and the Humor of Mourning
Andy Griffith and the Humor of Mourning
April 20th, 2013
Out of the Past
I would come to the Parker novels with fresh, innocent eyes, like a newborn fawn staring at the world for the first time, or at a pair of headlights.
October 14th, 2011
Outside the Zone: Searching for Sarai Sierra
On the killing of the 33-year-old amateur photographer
February 23rd, 2013
The Other Nancy Mitford
Let’s pretend that we know no more of Nancy Mitford than we do of Shakespeare.
April 20th, 2011
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