Glen Roven on Skios by Michael Frayn
“Identity Is as Identity Does: Frayn’s Farce”
October 14th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Peter M. Nardi on Fooling Houdini and Trade of the Tricks by Alex Stone and Graham M. Jones
October 14th, 2012
Katy Evans-Bush on London: A History in Verse by Mark Ford
““Because London is Still a Kaleidoscope”: The City's History in Verse”
October 14th, 2012
Victoria Patterson on Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus
“The Strangeness of Reality: Chris Kraus’s Summer of Love”
October 14th, 2012
John Langan on Motherless Child by Glen Hirshberg
“Mina and Lucy at the Waffle House”
October 14th, 2012
Peli Grietzer on Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith
“The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing”
October 12th, 2012
Joseph Hammond on Battling Siki and Championzé by Peter Benson and Eddy Vaccaro
“The Singular Senegalese: On Africa's First Boxing Icon”
October 12th, 2012
Heather Tomlinson on Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
October 11th, 2012
Sherri Smith on The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
October 11th, 2012
Merrie Haskell on Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
October 11th, 2012
Annie Wyman on Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson
“Against the Facts: On Allan Peterson’s “Fragile Acts””
October 9th, 2012
John Cline on The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
October 8th, 2012
Tom Gallagher on Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
“Endless War: Rachel Maddow and America’s Power Addiction”
October 7th, 2012
Carl Miller on Enthusiasms by Mark Girouard
“Hours in a Lavatory: The Quiet Enthusiasms of Mark Girouard”
October 7th, 2012
Books
Genres
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More