Unfinished Form
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.
"Must You Go?" is both a wife’s reflection and a historian’s.
Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings.
I’m not equating him with Hitler, mind you, or Joe Smith or Jim Jones. I’m just trying to understand my own compulsion.
Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them.
Negro League Baseball may be tough going for the average reader, yet its rewards are bountiful.
Mirkovic fixates upon two types of men, not always separate: writers and war criminals.
BEN KATCHOR IS THE Joseph Mitchell of contemporary comics. Mitchell, along with his close friend A.J. Liebling, was a pivotal early New Yorker reporte...
On my trip to Poland this past winter, I brought the perfect book as my traveling companion.
For all the talk of information overload, we are all of us a little behind on our reading.
It’s hard to talk about this stuff without it sounding like “The Steam From My Blowhole, Part 47.”
IT'S TEN THIRTY IN LOS ANGELES on a Thursday night. Your buddy, who's been a friend since your Berkeley days and still lives in Oakland, is in for...
Trying to pin down the definitive characteristics of “noir” is a tiresome game.
"A collection of twenty-eight tales in the slef-defined niche of "geezer noir."
Tense existential snapshots of sudden violence.
Improbably close readings of questionably canonical texts are the order of the day in these books.