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I’m Starting to Realize I’m Watching The Bear (1988) Not The Bear (2022)
The Ice Storm: On Ken Dryden's SCOTTY and THE GAME
Remembering Novelist and Teacher Maureen Howard
A Poet’s-Eye View: Yi Sang
From the Parkhives (2002): The Outsiders — On Henry Darger
A Good Story to Tell: A talk with the New York Review of Books
Triple Canopy – Only Connect by Ed Park with Rachel Aviv
How “Squid Game” Channels the Anarchic Spirit of the New Korean Cinema
The Enduring Appeal of “Dune” as an Adolescent Power Fantasy
"The Wife on Ambien"
The Best Graphic Novels of 2021
Like No One They'd Ever Seen: Younghill Kang's EAST GOES WEST
From the Parkhives (1996): The Family Plot - on THE MEMOIRS OF LADY HYEGYONG
Weird Menace - an Audible original
In the Killing Jar: On Bong Joon Ho’s MEMORIES OF MURDER
Shifting Styles, Blue Moods: Graphic Novels by Matt Madden and R. Kikuo Johnson
Minor Poets, Major Works: Why Do Obscure Artists Leave Such Lasting Impressions?
Get Lit —Two Favorite Reads of 2021
The Astral Weeks archive (L.A. Times science fiction column, 2007-2011)
The Labyrinth and the Plague: ’70s Science Fiction Films
From the Parkhives (2013): A brief talk about science fiction (with Lincoln Michel)
From the Parkhives (2005): Lee Tandy Schwartzman's CRIPPLED DETECTIVES
The New Yorker "Classics" (archive)
Introduction to Chris Reynolds's THE NEW WORLD
On Gary Panter
Lockdown comics: Simon Hanselmann’s CRISIS ZONE, Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman’s STREET COP, and Garett Brookes’s THE DANCING PLAGUE
Audiobook roundup
On Barry Windsor-Smith's MONSTERS, Margaret Kimball's AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS, and Karl Stevens's PENNY
On Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI
Parable of the Butler
Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination During the Coronavirus Crisis
Pale Ink: Commonplace Books and the Illusions of Memory
From the Parkhives: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke (2008)
Dance Dance Evolution: A review of Hilary Spurling's life of Anthony Powell
Graphic Content on “The Black Panther Party” and “Come Home, Indio”
"The Twins": A Poem
From the Parkhives (2005): Pastoralia
The Best Graphic Novels of 2020
Studies of Darkness and Disguise: BREAKWATER and LON CHANEY SPEAKS
Antics Roadshow: The Elaborate Fantasies of Harry Mathews
From the Parkhives (2004): The Joy of Operating Manuals
From the Parkhives (2002): Egadsby! Ernest Vincent Wright's Machine Dreams
Revisiting the “Violent Ballets” of Jack Kirby
Adrian Tomine's THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE CARTOONIST & Joe Sacco's PAYING THE LAND
From the Parkhives (2009): "Forgive Me"
3 for Criterion: On '70s Science Fiction, Harold Lloyd, and ROSEMARY'S BABY
From the Parkhives: "Cow Vase" (Significant Objects)
Lee Ki-Ho's AT LEAST WE CAN APOLOGIZE and other contemporary Korean novels
Review of Noah Van Sciver's FANTE BUKOWSKI and Gabrielle Bell's INAPPROPRIATE
On Mira Jacob's GOOD TALK and Bill Griffith's NOBODY'S FOOL
From the Parkhives (2005): Gimme Nonfiction: A biography of B.S. Johnson
Very Strange Coincidences: Harry Stephen Keeler satirizes Poetry magazine in the ’30s
Paradoxes: Lawrence Douglas's THE VICES and Lars Arffsen's THE GIRL WITH THE STURGEON TATTOO
Only Disconnect: Jonathan Coe's THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM
Introduction to Anthony Powell's AFTERNOON MEN
The Crying of West 79th Street: Thomas Pynchon's BLEEDING EDGE
From the Parkhives (2005): They Never Forget: The Fictions of Rachel Ingalls
Other Headings in the Susan Sontag Archive
Inside the Golden Days: David Berman
From the Parkhives (2002): The Precognitions: On the posthumous trail of Sebald and Gaddis
Typo Analysis: The Chicago Manual of Style
The Dream Life: Edward Gorey's unmade silent-film screenplay
The Couch Chronicles (West Side Rag)
The Stories My Sons and I Share
Review of George Takei's THEY CALLED US ENEMY and Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's GRASS
Fun With Monoliths: Jim Finn's THE JUCHE IDEA and North Korean cinema
From the Parkhives (2009): Titles Within a Tale: The Invisible Library
Partial Magic in PAT THE BUNNY
It All Started in Omaha: Chris Ware's RUSTY BROWN
Review of Ogden Whitney's RETURN TO ROMANCE and Alexander Forbes and Kris Bertin's THE CURSED HERMIT
The Great Lost Novel of Middle Age: Russell Hoban's TURTLE DIARY