All Essays

• 

  Another 100,000 Galleys

  if you self-publish, you’re branded a sinner of sorts.

  Joseph PeschelMar 17, 2012
• 

  The Wrong Marlowe

  Let’s say it’s 1978 and you are Dan J. Marlowe, once one of the hottest suspense novelists of your day

  Charles KellyMar 10, 2012
• 

  Living with Linsanity

  Racial difference was an integral part of Linsanity since the beginning and, as the phenomenon grew, the issue would continue to snowball.

  Oliver WangMar 6, 2012
• 

  Russia's New Time of Troubles

  Russians applauded. They wanted order and didn’t mind if Putin suspended civil rights to provide it.

  Martin SixsmithMar 4, 2012
• 

  Feeding the Poor

  In truth, it is the ones who uncritically embrace new technical innovations that are being naïve and idealistic.

  Jeff DietrichMar 3, 2012
• 

  Understated Turmoil

  Bainbridge’s point is that modernity will tell us little and the people who record it, even less.

  David FreemanMar 3, 2012
• 

  Decay is the Way Dead Things Live

  It’s hard not to read this as a profession of artistic faith, of Schulz’s conviction in an art made out of scraps and remnants.

  Jacob MikanowskiMar 2, 2012
• 

  Dreaming in Chinese

  Today in China, individualism and pluralism thrive as never before. But, all in all, it is an opportunistic and self-regarding individualism.

  Richard WolinMar 1, 2012
• 

  Finer Dining Through Chemistry

  Food could be more than nourishment; it could express ideas about form and function. It could be art.

  John McIntyreFeb 29, 2012

  • Food & Drink

• 

  From Moscow Art Theatre to Catfish Row

  Mamoulian, perhaps more than anyone else, defined the original racial landscape that became the setting for Porgy and Bess.

  Kurt JensenFeb 28, 2012
• 

  Not Pretty: On Edith Wharton and Jonathan Franzen

  Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?

  Victoria PattersonFeb 25, 2012
• 

  The Exegete

  Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure

  Rob LathamFeb 24, 2012
• 

  Strange Bedfellows

  on Christianity and homosexuality

  Briallen HopperFeb 23, 2012
• 

  Paperback Writers: Georges Simenon

  Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.

  Richard RaynerFeb 18, 2012
• 

  Golden Eye

  It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.

  Ross AndersenFeb 15, 2012
• 

  The Marriage Prop

  The Prop 8 trial is, in fact, one of the greatest stories of our time.

  Audrey BilgerFeb 12, 2012