November 30, 2017
Because That’s Real Life: An Evening with Margaret Atwood
On November 16, Margaret Atwood, the grande dame of all things literary (and of dystopian nightmares that have revealed themselves to be unnervingly prescient) graced Cleveland with her presence at […]
August 12, 2012
Vidal, Bradbury, and misanthropic virtue
That people die, authors included, is no strange fact—but it is made strange by the deaths of authors so large they seem immovable, pillars of the craft exempt from time […]
July 9, 2012
Black to green to gone: the tattoo as form and subject
To encode the past into one’s skin is both recursive and prophetic: recursive in that it makes the past a continual part of not just the present but the vehicle […]
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 […]
June 7, 2012
Mix Tape: Live Forever
Remembering Ray Bradbury, who died this week at age 91: “I went back and saw [Mr. Electrico] that night. He sat in the chair with his sword, they pulled the […]