A while back I mentioned that the journal Encyclopedia 's second volume, F-K , would soon be out, and it is now on bookstands and availa...

David Kato (Photo: Frontline, CAHR) Gukira has one of the best (as always), most thoughtful and considerate memorial posts I've read...

In the introduction to his brilliant study of MFA programs and their effects on American literature, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and th...

Wandering around Chelsea a few weekends back when I was home for an event, I happened upon one of the empty storefronts (300 W. 22nd St...

Over the winter break I dropped by The Kitchen to check out artist Adam Pendleton 's solo exhibit BAND .  I've followed Pendleton...

It's his video for "Runaway," but actually contains a condensed medley of many of his songs on his recent album, My Dark Twist...

Last week Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson claimed that were the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (at left, Riverf...

The more my workload increases, the more I find myself dreaming of books, writing, reading, blogging, immersing myself in works of imaginati...

Holly Pickett/NY Times So the Tunisian people have driven out their corrupt, authoritarian president, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali , in office...

One of the truisms of this world is that someone somewhere is always leaving us. Years ago I realized that if I were to note the death of ev...

Last year about this time, on a whim, I submitted a zine I'd offered for free on this blog (there was only one taker, eheu, who never...

Snow, snow, everywhere snow. Or at least it feels like I'm trailing or it's trailing me here in Chicago. It wasn't snowing in Lo...

I have been intending to blog more this year than I did last year, but the first week of the new year has coincided with the first week of c...

Happy New Year! Feliz año nuevo Feliz Ano Novo Bonne année Buon Anno e tanti auguri Kull 'aam wa-antum bikhayr Aliheli'sdi Its...

HAPPY KWANZAA ! Habari gani. Photo courtesy of the Official Kwanzaa website . Kwanzaa, which has been around since I was a year old or so...

Happy Holidays - Merry Christmas - Happy Hanukkah - Happy Kwanzaa - Best Wishes For This Season and Always!

It's the holidays, which means its time for what one J's Theater reader once charitably called "rugby porn." Not real por...

Last spring I checked out from the university's library the esteemed Enlightenment historian and (Harvard University) librarian Robert D...

It sometimes is the case that great artists, especially highly original ones or who do not fit the artworld's templates and expectations...

I'm going to sing the praises of The New York Times today, and note that since October 30, 2010, it has been publishing one of the ...