June 8, 2012
Short Takes: Cutting It Out, Keeping It In
Gangs of robots, social expectations, and charting syllogisms: if George Saunders, Lewis Carroll, and many others had written the much-maligned Twilight series. C. S. Lewis on “the thing” writers write […]
April 5, 2012
Mix Tape: Billy Collins and a Talking Dog
Billy Collins plays himself in a PBS cartoon—one about a talking dog—to celebrate National Poetry Month. But if talking dogs and former poet laureates aren’t your bag, the Academy of […]