“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
Eric Hayot on Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World and The Other Face of the Moon by Claude Levi-Strauss and Claude Levi-Strauss
“Through the Mirror: Claude Lévi-Strauss in Japan”
April 14th, 2013
Jonathan Shapiro on The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin
“Toobin's Pivot: Jeffrey Toobin's "The Oath"”
April 10th, 2013
K. Bradford on Sister Spit by Michelle Tea
“The Tour that Launched a Million Queers”
April 6th, 2013
Jack Miles on Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel
“Tilting Against Naïve Materialism: On Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"”
February 22nd, 2013
David Winters on Dying for Time by Martin Hägglund
“Terror and Beauty: Martin Hägglund’s "Dying for Time"”
February 5th, 2013
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
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Mike Davis
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Jon Wiener
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Genres
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More