Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
Creativity, agency, and nature in Carruth's 'Upstream Color'
June 10th, 2013
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
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
