Archive

• You’re Not Alone

  Franzen can’t help but give voice to his despair, but neither does he give it the last word, choosing to place his faith in the ruggedness of comedy.

  James SantelMay 27, 2012

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Schindler Goes Hollywood Part II

  Alan HessMay 26, 2012
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  David Leonard and Oliver Wang on "After Artest"

  Oliver WangMay 26, 2012
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  Schindler Goes Hollywood

  Alan HessMay 26, 2012
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  The Secularist's Dogma: Simon Critchley's "The Faith of the Faithless"

  David WintersMay 25, 2012
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  SalvagePunk: China Miéville's "Railsea"

  "In 'Railsea,' Miéville uses salvage itself as a mode of writing."

  Jessica StitesMay 25, 2012
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  Where Everything's Thermal: A Conversation with Leonard Koren

  Victoria DaileyMay 25, 2012
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  Team Colors

  "In reality, the integration of American sports was anything but a natural or organic process. It was a struggle."

  David J. LeonardMay 24, 2012

• The Meaning of Death: John Barth's "Every Third Thought"

  "What may look at first like a slight novel from an aging author on second and third sight proves to be a sleight novel by an ageless master."

  James GreerMay 24, 2012

• Notes on Shulman

  Benjamin LordMay 23, 2012

• Marilynne Robinson and the Miraculous Privilege of Existence

  "For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."

  Albert Wu, Michelle KuoMay 22, 2012

  • Fiction

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  Pornotopia

  "Pornotopia has the same narrative problem all utopias do — a perfectly happy place is more fun to live in than it is to read about."

  Roger BellinMay 21, 2012
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  Whither Holmes?

  Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.

  Nicholas MeyerMay 21, 2012

• Eden of Clowns

  "You've probably heard the news: We Americans are a mob of dipshits."

  William GiraldiMay 21, 2012

• Art Book: Robert Seydel’s “Book of Ruth”

  "Even the 'author photograph' at the end of the book is another collage."

  Jocelyn HeaneyMay 20, 2012

  • Art & Architecture

• Take A Picture: On Errol Morris's "Believing Is Seeing"

  "Is a photograph 'inauthentic,' in other words, just because the objects in the frame have been moved around a bit?"

  Lauren WalshMay 20, 2012