Blind Impress

Over at Quomodocumque , Jordan Ellenberg has reviewed a recent show by the New Pornographers, my favorite new band of the last 20 years. Bu...

I e-mailed the editors of Dissent to point out the error I discussed in my last post , and they asked me to expand my remarks into a 250-wo...

I recently came across this article in Dissent , a magazine I've lately been reading online chiefly because its editors just republishe...

In my last post, I was trying to clarify the point of contention between Arthur and me by distinguishing what I called formalism and context...

I know, I know, I've started to look like one of those people who start blogs full of enthusiasm but forget about them within months. Bu...

It's probably a gross failing on the part of Firefox's developers that when I opened this link in a new tab, I couldn't shut it...

In his recent elegy for Ingmar Bergman , Woody Allen says, In film school (I was thrown out of New York University quite rapidly when I was ...