On Barry Windsor-Smith's MONSTERS, Margaret Kimball's AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS, and Karl Stevens's PENNY
From the Parkhives (2005): Lee Tandy Schwartzman's CRIPPLED DETECTIVES
In the Killing Jar: On Bong Joon Ho’s MEMORIES OF MURDER
On Gary Panter
Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination During the Coronavirus Crisis
Like No One They'd Ever Seen: Younghill Kang's EAST GOES WEST
Weird Menace - an Audible original
On Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI
Parable of the Butler
From the Parkhives: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke (2008)
Graphic Content on “The Black Panther Party” and “Come Home, Indio”
"The Twins": A Poem
Dance Dance Evolution: A review of Hilary Spurling's life of Anthony Powell
From the Parkhives (2005): Pastoralia
The Best Graphic Novels of 2020
Studies of Darkness and Disguise: BREAKWATER and LON CHANEY SPEAKS
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
Pale Ink: Commonplace Books and the Illusions of Memory
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
An Election Day Fever-Dream
From the Parkhives: "Cow Vase" (Significant Objects)
Minor Poets, Major Works: Why Do Obscure Artists Leave Such Lasting Impressions?
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
Antics Roadshow: The Elaborate Fantasies of Harry Mathews
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
Introduction to Chris Reynolds's THE NEW WORLD
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 Astral Weeks archive (L.A. Times science fiction column, 2007-2011)
"The Wife on Ambien"
The Great Lost Novel of Middle Age: Russell Hoban's TURTLE DIARY
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