“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
Susan Salter Reynolds on Wonderful Investigations by Dan Beachy-Quick
June 30th, 2012
Eric Been on I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Mark Dery
June 21st, 2012
Dave White on Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers
June 1st, 2012
David J. Leonard on Showdown, Integrating the Gridiron and Benching Jim Crow by Thomas G. Smith, Lane Demas and Charles Martin
May 24th, 2012
Sadie Stein on Dreaming in French by Alice Kaplan
May 1st, 2012
Xujun Eberlein on Mao’s Great Famine and Tombstone by Frank Dikotter and Yang Jisheng
January 31st, 2012
Jonathan Zimmerman on Film School by Steve Boman
January 28th, 2012
Brian Kim Stefans on Body Sweats by Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven and Suzanne Zelazo
December 16th, 2011
Laurie Winer on Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
December 2nd, 2011
Mette Ivie Harrison on Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
August 2nd, 2011
Dan Fante on Shortcut Man by P.G. Sturges
“Three-Dimensional Wistfulness”
June 23rd, 2011
Genres
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... 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
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