Below are the 50 most recent articles. You can view the entire archive by selecting one of the links to the left to view every post for a particular month or year, or to page through a particular section in reverse chronological order. If you're looking for something specific, the search feature is quite good as well.

March 2004

31: Thoughts inspired by Charlie Kaufman

31: Carl Schmitt says politics is a fight for power

29: A Contrast in Modes

26: More on crisis for mid-list authors

26: But not with this guy

26: Online reviewers gaining clout

25: Daniel Green lays out the crisis of literary criticism

24: Sven Birkerts on snark as a symptom of Literature's decline

22: "The West" in Crisis

22: Mid-List Woes

22: Gadflyer on Clarke's revelations

20: Literary Criticism, is it?

20: Country of My Skull

15: Stumbling Toward Method

12: Thinking through class

12: Amis lauds his great non-paternal mentor, Saul Bellow

11: I should find the complete text of this article

11: Another class similar to my own

11: Primo Levi's death likely an accident

11: Hofstadter discusses the paranoia found in right-wing political movements

11: Lawrence Norfolk on David Mitchell

11: Creative Class analysis is always interesting

06: Power of Music

06: Hillary Mantel discusses saintliness as a form of anorexia

05: Slate says Bush is too steady

05: The Kreutzer Sonata

03: Vision Thing

02: Tony Leung loves acting