A Review of China Miéville’s Embassytown Over the course of a career which has produced eight novels, a collection of short fiction and, a non-fiction book on…

An act, followed by a text, followed by an interpretation of both, of one through the other and back again: suicide has a great deal in common with literature.

  (via) Even unfinished, it is a brilliant work, an exploration of some of life’s deepest challenges, and an enterprise of extraordinary artistic daring. David…

(via) Just when you thought the world was a horrible, boring place full of assholes, Werner Herzog makes a movie in 3D. And not only…

A review of Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief  The recent publication of Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief (in a new translation by Dustin Condren) calls for a renewed…

Saoirse Ronan/Emily Browning The Young-Girl doesn’t look like a dead body, as one might presume from reading women’s magazines; she looks like death itself. Tiqqun, Raw…

It is often said of fiction that it is “impossible to put down.” The suggestion is that what we want from reading is total submission:…

The original tribe of self-proclaimed Superstars, however, was Andy Warhol’s Factory crew of “odds-and-ends misfits, somehow misfitting together,” as the artist described them in his memoir, Popism. Within this tribe, the Warhol Superstar that most extravagantly combined silver screen Hollywood glamour with downtown New York chic was Candy Darling, the transsexual actress who worked alongside

When I was living in Madrid, I read an article in El País one day that spoke of el valorado concepto anglosajón de “fair play” —the valued Anglo-Saxon concept…

If sports have value, it is as art. They are a platform on which athletes and teams stretch themselves to species capacity for the ephemeral…