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Discoveries: Franzen, Beachy-Quick, & Baldwin
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
Susan Salter ReynoldsJun 30, 2012
Supreme Hubris: Theories of Judicial Activism
The inevitability of politics.
Don FranzenJun 29, 2012
- Law
Five Thrillers for the Summer
All thriller, no filler
Jeff AyersJun 27, 2012
- Fiction
Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
Joseph LuzziJun 26, 2012
- Art & Architecture
Letter from Australia
What American publication means to Australian writers
Sam Twyford MooreJun 25, 2012
- Around the World
YAC Hit List: The Fairy List
The best faeries ever.
Aprilynne PikeJun 25, 2012
Smothered: Part 3
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
John KayeJun 24, 2012
The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China
A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.
Dora ZhangJun 23, 2012
- Around the World
- Literary Criticism
The Authority Syndicate: Javier Marias
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times
Veronica EspositoJun 22, 2012
Welcome to the Anthropocene
A new literature for a new age, the 'Age of Man'
David BielloJun 20, 2012
- Science & Technology
Smothered: Part 2
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
John KayeJun 17, 2012
Ray's Show
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
Michael Oates PalmerJun 14, 2012
- SF
Nightmarish Glimpses of Our Inner Selves
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
Brian Attebery, Gary K. Wolfe, John Clute, Rob LathamJun 12, 2012
- SF
The Bradbury Era
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
F.X. FeeneyJun 11, 2012
- SF
Fairy Tales about the Modern World
"He transcended genre and became a genre of one; often emulated, absolutely inimitable."
Jun 11, 2012
Smothered: Part I
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
John KayeJun 10, 2012