Destroy everything about this except it's ears. It's ears it keeps, and I'll tell you why...
Books
We have fooled ourselves into perceiving our technology as neutral, detached from our own biased and irrational...
This week I read two novels by Hubert Selby Jr. I'd never read him before. Selby buried...
On a Japanese novel and film that deal in different ways with the social pressure to forget....
Needing help is not a sign of patriarchal brainwashing.
This is the biggest benefit of “Amusing Ourselves to Death:” its introduction into the world of deconstructing...
Here's a book that takes cultural essay writing to a whole other level.
A day late and a dollar short with two stories of the rake's progress.
In Avi Woolf’s Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World post, Brother Rufus wrote an insightful and incisive comment:
A radical libertarian manifesto that deserves to be taken seriously – and rejected. A Review of Kevin...
I suppose by middle age it's high time I started with Balzac...
"The book was better" is not something I say very often, but it is no less true:...
On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
On a recent book written for those who might wonder.
Okay. Time to close the cover on another Ordinary Bookclub. We read Harry Potter and the Methods...
The Wife of Bath's Tale shows how desperate readers are for a hero and what we are...
