At FPR, Gregory Butler has written a nice discussion of Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising. This album has...
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, closes with a flip-book sequence of one...
(This post talks about all of Season 4 of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but,...
People have been giving attention to David Brooks’ latest column. This is good, because I have a...
(Note: This post began as a comment to Tim’s post this morning, grew into a full-fledged response,...
Perhaps the strangest reaction to President Obama’s summer-reading list came from Mickey Kaus (emphasis his): Obama’s just-released...
I know that this is not a problem limited to Commentary, or to today’s right-of-center magazines, but since...
A detailed discussion of one of the few victims of crucifixion to be discovered, here. Less on...
In a comment to my previous post, Art Deco offers several statistics in support of his counter-argument...
In the summer issue of National Affairs, Marc Dunkelman offers a diagnosis of the American polity via...
Tossed off almost like an aside, and one of those lines I had to go back and...
(I’m writing about Gillian Welch’s The Harrow and the Harvest until I feel like stopping. But really, you should listen...
In a pine grove on the southwest cusp of the interstate cloverleaf 5 P.M. / JULY 4...
Since I’m beginning the hunt for a new laptop: Does anyone have experience with/opinions about non-Word word...
Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to wonder about the relationships between and among war, tragedy, and justice: There’s a...
Because I find less wrong with supporting John McCain in 2008 than seceding in order to protect...
(I’m writing about Gillian Welch’s The Harrow and the Harvest until I feel like stopping. But really, you should listen...
(I’m going to take a page out of William Brafford’s book and write about Gillian Welch’s The...
Because I’m at least a year behind when it comes to movies, I did not watch Harry...
Given that Aaron Sorkin successfully predicted the major party candidates in 2008, Rahm Emanuel’s rise to Chief...
