Short Schrift

This is a list of two-letter words in English (compiled by the Scrabble people). Since they're trying to list only one (brief) definiti...

I first heard Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea maybe three years ago, when I made my first trip through all the indie...

We all went ga-ga over the new video iPod ; how about this new Olive Symphony multifunction stereo written up in today's Times? With t...

As a former (and still, in some sense, at heart) Chicagoan, it gives me a special and perverse kind of pleasure to see White Sox fans in the...

I've been going for almost a year without cable, so I've been watching a lot of my favorite television shows through other means -- ...

Via Arts & Letters Daily , Slavoj Zizek (aka the best Lacanian-Marxist film and cultural critic in the world) on New Orleans, the Europe...

From Boing Boing , A Time magazine article/group interview featuring Tim O'Reilly, Malcolm Gladwell, Clay Shirky, Mark Dery, Esther Dys...

I just read an article from Sfgate.com (via Google News) on polls closing for the vote on the Iraqi Constitution . Here's where things s...

Eight months in to maintaining my own house, I've finally realized that the problem with being middlingly handy is that you know how to ...

Here's something I've noticed: when I tell people I study literature and literary theory, people often ask me about my favorite auth...