
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"


“The 'Bitch' Was Onto Something: A Re-Reading of "The Feminine Mystique"”
February 11th, 2013
“The Academy In Peril: A Symposium”
December 21st, 2012
“The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing”
October 12th, 2012

“The Anatomy of a Cheater: Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her"”
September 11th, 2012


“The Art of the Critic: On James Wood”
November 17th, 2012


“The Ballad of Abel Kiviat: Jews and Sports”
December 6th, 2012
“The Best and the Brightest: On Wall Street and Meritocracy”
November 10th, 2012

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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More