Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
On Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
March 14th, 2013
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
January 4th, 2012
Let’s say it’s 1978 and you are Dan J. Marlowe, once one of the hottest suspense novelists of your day
March 10th, 2012
After the riots, a report from Egypt
September 27th, 2012
A short story excerpted from the 'New Yorker' writer's 'The Lists of the Past'
August 26th, 2012
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
December 17th, 2011
Thomas Barrow and TV's trouble with 'the Gay Character'
April 16th, 2013
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
On Table Tennis and Track & Field
August 3rd, 2012
The Ghost Sports: Baseball
August 6th, 2012
"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
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
