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.

October 2005

28: Paul Ford talks about the virtues and vices of distraction

21: Honoring Commitments

18: Time Magazine picks it's Top 100 Novels

17: Desperate Characters

16: Powells Interviews Salman Rushdie

13: Stir Crazy

10: A Profile of Joan Didion

10: Soldier asks McCain for guidance

06: Suketu profiles a South Asian Fixer in New York

04: Flame-Broiled Whopper

04: Francine Prose on Coetzee

04: And then, Kakutani on the new Didion book

04: After Life by Joan Didion

04: An old Kakutani take on Joan Didion

04: Kakutani also likes Zadie's book

04: Frank Kermode on Zadie

04: THE VAGARIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by Daniel Gilbert

04: The Snowflake Method for Writing a Novel

03: 50 Strategies for Making Yourself Write

03: Status Strikes Back