Swati Pandey on Life Itself by Roger Ebert
“Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"”
March 14th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Houman Barekat on How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price
“Circulation Jerks: On the Book as Fetish Object”
August 31st, 2012
Jo Giese on Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch
“Clam Spit and the Seattle World's Fair”
February 23rd, 2013
Lisa Levy on As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh by Susan Sontag
“Cogito Ergo Boom: Susan Sontag's Journals”
June 6th, 2012
John Cline on My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
“Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line”
July 1st, 2012
Kate Merkel-Hess on The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past and Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000 by Gail Hershatter and Jacob Eyferth
October 12th, 2011
Thomas S. Hines on Architecture in Uniform by Jean-Louis Cohen
September 7th, 2011
Lindsay Reckson on Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey
June 19th, 2012
John Romano on Civilization by Niall Ferguson
February 17th, 2012
Niall Harrison on Osiris by E.J. Swift
July 9th, 2012
Books
Genres
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Jon Wiener
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More