“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
Sophie Kalkreuth on Atlas by Dung Kai-cheung
“What is Hong Kong? On the Archaeology of an Imaginary City”
January 12th, 2013
Swati Pandey on Twentysomething by Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig
“Woman Something: On "Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?"”
December 13th, 2012
Jim Hinch on The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
“Why Stephen Greenblatt is Wrong — and Why It Matters”
December 1st, 2012
John Cline on Darkest America by Jake Austen and Yuval Taylor
November 16th, 2012
Julia Lupton on Blog Theory by Jodi Dean
August 13th, 2012
William Giraldi on You & Me by Padgett Powell
August 1st, 2012
Mark London Williams on Hero by Mike Lupica
July 14th, 2012
Chris Kraus on How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
“What Women Say to One Another”
June 18th, 2012
D. Harlan Wilson on Death Sentences by Chiaki Kawamata
May 14th, 2012
Genres
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jayne Cortez
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Jon Wiener
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Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More