The Situation in American Writing: Blake Butler
The nebulous enemy is not terrorism, it is us. I mean that in the kindest way.
The Terrible Affliction of Beauty
“You wish to speak about beauty and the modern world,” Mishima would say while lighting a hand-rolled cigarette. “I wrote about this back in ’59…Surely, Professor Scruton, you’ve read my book?”
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The scent of madness is in the air.
Here is the problem: our culture still offers men a broader spectrum of acceptable personality types than it does women.
The Situation in American Writing: Eileen Myles
The desire to make a living as a writer is a true perversion in this culture but I think we need our perverts more than ever.
Stage Magic: One Hundred Years of Tennessee Williams
Such moments — of threatened people carving out a beautiful space in a harsh world — became Williams’ hallmark.
Armageddon: The Other American Dream
Evil is a house of mirrors, and the Devil perhaps nothing more than the imagined embodiment of our every devilish inclination.
Was it wrong to present “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” as creative nonfiction? Is it a “true” story, as Daisey claims? These are hard questions in an age where our definitions of journalism and the journalist are being re-drawn.
Stairs and Stares: A Look at Downton Abbey and its Ancestry
There is something doubly satisfying about watching a program which allows modern viewers to imagine themselves both as a lounging aristocrat and as a hyper-attentive servant.