2010-04-18     Henry James and his Characters
2010-01-03     Baying with the Hounds
2009-10-27     What Was Kurosawa Silent About in Dersu Uzala?
2009-08-03     Stupidity or Wisdom: That’s the Question
2009-04-01     Oedipus’ Curse
2009-03-27     Honoring Old Masters: Angus Fletcher
2009-03-22     On Hong Kong, or What I Saw
2009-03-19     Haunted by M
2009-03-12     Learning from Kierkegaard
2009-02-22     Whose Funny Valentine? Part 1
2009-02-20     Two Faces of Japan in Kurosawa's The Idiot
2009-02-11     My Way to Freud
2009-02-01     Godard's A Woman Is a Woman: “Musical Practicum”
2009-01-27     New York City's Blind Spot: The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
2009-01-12     Barcelona Dream: Plaça Ferdinand de Lesseps
2009-01-05     Discreet Charms of New Haven
2008-12-04     Van Gogh at MoMA

2010-02-28     Baby Relativism
2009-12-22     Back to the Caves
2009-11-23     A propos of art and politics
2009-03-25     Moby Dick's Call
2009-03-08     Why they failed
2009-02-28     Crocodile Gena's Birthdaysong!
2009-02-13     The Met's Version of the Chinese Encyclopedia
2009-02-02     Obama on Al Arabiya

2010-08-16: It is just the familiar provincialism of a country that spent half a century behind an iron curtain. It is difficult to imagine Americans or Japanese asking for more place in an anthology because both literatures are very well known outside the...

2010-08-14: I'm not sure that the pesticides have not genetically modified people already. There is a statistical fact that the instances of some diseases have increased in population in the last decade, for example, our buddy, the thyroid cancer...

2010-08-06: This last story about an invented paper is ingenious! What a comment on the quality of the college...

2010-07-30: Yes, one can be only bewildered by the total lack of originality and risk-taking by those who have all securities in the world. But maybe the banality and mainstream tastes of our leaders are exactly the sign of democracy — the daughter of a...

2010-06-03: Hey, you are related to me, and I'm “larger-than-life” in Nashville (as your cousin told me). So I guess, they picture me as a tap-dancer and a chain-swinging rock-singer, that is, an incarnation of eroticism and a very interesting person...

2010-04-07: “Teenage girls and Twilight moms who are addicted to Pattinson’s image in the Twilight franchise are therefore not so much addicted to love or sex, but to the very contradiction or structural incongruity in the way our society defines sexuality...

2009-11-06: Your description of how you felt without thyroid hormone pins down exactly how I usually feel! I guess the thyroid function which makes you quick-thinking and agile is lost on me. I envy your metabolism...

2009-11-02: Yesterday's issue of Le Monde was also all about Jacques Chirac's upcoming trial regarding his old dealings as a maire of Paris. It seems to be a trend in Europe now. Funny to think about it, if you remember how the Great Britain struggled to keep...

2009-10-31: J. Scahill has a whole chapter in his recent Blackwater book on the mercenaries in New Orleans who made huge profits on securing private property of the few. Instead of being provided with water and food, people were policed by enormous amounts of...

2009-10-08: It is important to remember that Annie’s murder was revenge directed not only at her but also at her fiancé, her equally brilliant male counterpart. And this fact makes the issue less gendered and more one of social class. Annie’s fiancé shares her...