BookExpo 2012, Los Angeles
Will Heinrich
The hottest titles exorcise ghosts from our political past.
The Short of It
2009
2008
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'Lost as Food and Won as a Coast'
Is a new, computer-generated poetry anthology as intriguing--and boring--as the lifework of any fairly prolific poet?
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Sloveniafest
What is it about Slovene poetry that has attracted so many American poets?
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The Idiocrats
Alexander Provan : Internet & New Media
Why do Internet boosters continue to confuse social networking with art?
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Seeing Past the Ivy
William Deresiewicz : Literacy & Reading
Why the commentariat's response to hand-wringing about "the decline of reading" condescends to the large mass of nonspecialist readers.
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Krapp's Last Horse
With his new play Kicking a Dead Horse, Sam Shepard is still stranded in a prairie of tough-guy cliché.
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Music's Measures
A jazz writer pays tribute to his longtime collaborator on The Penguin Guide to Jazz.
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Uncomplicated
Slavoj Žižek's newest book may cause readers to conclude that the superstar philosopher has misplaced his marbles.
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Strange Alchemy
In A Conservative History of the American Left, Daniel Flynn can't decide whether to ridicule the left or fear it.
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Taz Year Thirty
Germany's leading left daily wins the fight to name a street after a leader of the 1968 student movement.
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Looking Past Clichés
The Visitor is that rare film that defines Arabs not as ethnic or religious stereotypes but as individuals.
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The Light Stuff
Melanie Rehak : Literacy & Reading
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
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Victim 'Hood
Chris Lehmann : Publishing Industry
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
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Professing Literature in 2008
William Deresiewicz : Higher Education
Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?
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