Growing Up Postmodern Carina Chocano reviews in today's paper a film I will never see, "Hannah Takes the Stairs." As an amateu...

Save Tara Campaign I posted on this last Spring, but as the writer (of the e-mail I copy-and-paste here) and I have commiserated, the Green ...

IWOSC Panel: Book Reviewing Gary Young had asked me to a Independent Writers of Southern California meeting held last spring where I shared ...

Gilgamesh: Two versions reviewed Andrew George's: I recommend this Penguin Classic, but it offers more thorough scholarly apparatus tha...

Paul Hallam's "Book of Sodom": Review Readers of my blog, if you exist, may have figured out my revived if longstanding fascin...

Philip Roth's "Everyman": Review My title refers to the unnamed protagonist's indirectly expressed (through a fittingly om...

My Father-in-Law, Days of Awe, Philip Roth & Pipe Tobacco 5768 I am finishing Philip Roth's short novel "Everyman," but re...

Ruth Mazo Karras: "Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others": Review Professor Karras’ subtitle conveys her thesis. Sex in ...

Pierre Klossowski: “Diana at her Bath & The Women of Rome” & “The Baphomet”: Reviews These two books follow “Roberte Ce Soir & ...

J. F. Powers’ “Wheat that Springeth Green”: Review This final entry--1988 marks its long-delayed arrival--in a lengthy career (starting in t...

Clinton Heylin's "Babylon's Burning": Review Posted to Amazon today. Subtitled "From Punk to Grunge," it does no...

Pierre Klossowski's "Roberte Ce Soir & Revocation of the Edict of Nantes": Review Posted today to Amazon US. "Pornogr...

Sexual Attitudes: Myths & Realities: Review The Bulloughs have written a long shelf of studies on sexuality, and this 1995 collection of...

"Love, Sex & Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook" ed. Conor McCarthy: Review This compiles mostly British sources in tra...