Barbarians at the Wormhole: On Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed are minor masterpieces of the dystopian subgenre and are unusually clear in their anxieties
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England, His England: Ian McEwan as Documentarian
Into the Woods Again and Again: The Profound Legacy of Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Take It From a Soldier: On Kevin Powers's "Yellow Birds"
The Golden Age: On Chabon’s “Telegraph Avenue”
The Best and the Brightest: On Wall Street and Meritocracy
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Webster and Hull
The anatomy of a second book of poems
Books: A Love Story
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
The Passion of the Critic: On Hoberman, Kracauer, and the Future of Film
Anarchish: James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism”
Gore Vidal Redux
On the Borderlands
Plebs and Chavs: On Textual Representation of Class
Vacare Oprah: The Gospel of O
The Third Man: Joseph Anton’s Split Perspective