“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
Thomas Larson on Cotton Tenants by James Agee and Walker Evans
Michael C. Donaldson on Reason and Imagination by Learned Hand
May 5th, 2013
Adriana E. Ramirez on Have You Seen Marie? and Another Insane Devotion by Sandra Cisneros and Peter Trachtenberg
“Look at These Cats!: Two Books on Felines”
April 9th, 2013
Justin Tanner on Lance Out Loud by Pat Loud
“A Loud Legacy: On Pat Loud's "Lance Out Loud"”
February 17th, 2013
Nathan Pensky on Custer by Larry McMurtry
“Little Big Legend: On Larry McMurtry's Custer”
February 3rd, 2013
Nicole Rudick on Dal Tokyo by Gary Panter
“Life on Mars: Gary Panter’s "Dal Tokyo"”
January 24th, 2013
Renate Stendhal on How the French Invented Love by Marilyn Yalom
“L’Amour (Oh La La) L’Amour is Strange”
December 16th, 2012
Daniel T. Blumstein on Wild Hope by Andrew Balmford
“Lessons from the Field: On "Wild Hope" by Andrew Balmford”
November 18th, 2012
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jon Wiener
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Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Film
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Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More