William Flesch on Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
November 16th, 2012
“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
Dylan J. Montanari on Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore
“Seeing Through Love: A Philosopher’s Vision”
November 2nd, 2012
John Clute on The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
“Somewhere More Interesting than Arrival ”
October 16th, 2012
Victoria Patterson on Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus
“The Strangeness of Reality: Chris Kraus’s Summer of Love”
October 14th, 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
Alan Williamson on Canti: Poems/A Bilingual Edition by Giacomo Leopardi
“A Song Heard on the Road: Leopardi’s Nihilistic Genius”
October 4th, 2012
Natasha Post Rosow on Dare Me by Megan Abbott
“Sticky Fingers: Megan Abbott’s Girl-On-Girl Noir”
September 30th, 2012
Erin Horáková on At The Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson
“Straight Couples: How Do They Work?”
September 27th, 2012
Pankaj Mishra on Chinese Characters by Angilee Shah and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
“A Storm of Change: The Journalism of China's Growth”
September 13th, 2012
Kevin Donovan on Invisible Users by Jenna Burrell
“Surfing the Internet in Ghana”
September 2nd, 2012
Heather Love on All We Know by Lisa Cohen
“Social Work: On Three Half-forgotten Women”
August 28th, 2012
Eli Diner on In Wonderland by Tere Arcq and Ilene Susan Fort
“Surrealist Afterlives: on LACMA's "In Wonderland"”
August 23rd, 2012
Joshua Mostafa on Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk
“Sphere Theory: A Case For Connectedness”
August 21st, 2012
Authors
Angilee Shah
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Percival Everett
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Jon Wiener
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Genres
Nonfiction
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Comics
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SF
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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