“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"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Michele Pridmore-Brown on Our Fathers, Ourselves by Peggy Drexler
“The Girl with the Father Tattoo”
December 16th, 2011
James Santel on Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
“The Golden Age: On Chabon's "Telegraph Avenue"”
November 11th, 2012
Ted Gioia on U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
“The Great American Novel That Wasn’t”
January 20th, 2013
Malcolm Harris on Philanthropy in America by Olivier Zunz
“The Hand That Feeds: Olivier Zunz's "Philanthropy in America"”
March 13th, 2012
Gioconda Belli on Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
“The Illusion of Sex: On the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy”
June 29th, 2012
D. Charles Whitney on Half Empty by David Rakoff
July 22nd, 2011
Boris Dralyuk on The Complete Slayers by Paul Cain
January 26th, 2012
Michael Szalay on Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
July 10th, 2012
Genres
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Mike Davis
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Jayne Cortez
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More