Columns
Wednesday, January 21 2009
Welcome, Miss Addams, to Your History
The personal life of 20th century America's Mother of Modern Social Work provides us with lessons during our 21st century debate on GLBT rights.
Reviews
Thursday, January 15 2009
Best Music Writing 2008
In a way this entire collection—not just Wilson’s standout piece—serves as its own elaborate response to Sasha Frere-Jones’ controversial charge.
Friday, November 21 2008
Best New American Voices 2009, ed. Mary Gaitskill
Though I feared "writers' workshop syndrome" when approaching this collection, I had implicit trust in Mary Gaitskill, and my trust was well placed.
Sunday, January 1 1995
A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy by Edwin T. Arnold & Dianne C. Luce, eds.
In the 1990s, this community of McCarthy fans extended its territory into the world of the American academy with the establishment of something called, in this volume, 'McCarthy studies', practised by a weird enclave of literary critics and pop cultural historians who, judging by the essays here, are immersed in the intricacies of their intellectual obsession.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll [Third Edition] by Holly George-Warren, Jon Pareles an
PULL.
