As we pass the two-year anniversary of J.D. Salinger's death, why is it that no one remarks on the obvious? In his life and in his fiction, Salinger had a predilection for young girls and women that, at least from a 21st century lens, does not seem all that healthy.
Kenneth Slawenski | Posted 03.28.2012
The author, who was famous for demanding control over every detail of his work while living, is still in control. Two years on, we are no closer to cementing Salinger's legacy than we were on the day that he died.
Linda Rosenkrantz | Posted 02.28.2012
If you're shopping for New Year's baby names, there are several possible ways to go... But you could also go down the namesake path, paying tribute to a notable bearer of a name you happen to like, one who entered the world on New Year's Eve or Day.
Jay Weston | Posted 02.25.2012
Any place which celebrates its literary side is going to be applauded by me, but to discover a warm, inviting tavern (yes, that's what it is) in the heart of Beverly Hills serving nostalgic American food is an unexpected bonus.
David Galenson | Posted 12.04.2011
All the artists mentioned here appear to have been conceptual innovators, and that their puzzling declines may be a result of the fact that age is not the friend of the conceptual imagination.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.14.2011
A handwritten, one-sentence letter by reclusive writer J.D. Salinger is up for sale, the AP reports. The price? Owners of the scribble hope to...
Zoe Triska | Posted 11.09.2011
J.D. Salinger's literary trust recently threatened legal action against memorabilia dealer Gary Zimet for posting a letter on his memorabilia site, mo...
Posted 09.29.2011
We all have them, those books that you feel changed some aspect of you or shaped you as a person. Lately, we've been curious as to what they are. ...
Posted 09.21.2011
We know the cliche goes, “You are what you eat," but it should really be, "You are what you read.” Or rather, who you read. One's favorite author ...
Zoe Triska | Posted 08.24.2011
It's a very personal question to ask but we didn't let that stop us, and readers really seemed to want to let us know which book characters they'd mo...
flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...
flavorwire.com | Posted 07.27.2011
As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya R...
Tom Mallory | Posted 07.25.2011
As I set about writing on "interactive architecture" this week, I was struck by the semantic challenges and numerous connotations of "interactivity." ...
guardian.co.uk | Stephen Kelman | Posted 07.25.2011
Stephen Kelman was born in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local gov...
guardian.co.uk | Woody Allen | Posted 07.09.2011
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Cynthia Ellis | Posted 07.05.2011
Can catching a ball for your favorite baseball team, in front of millions of fans, literally ruin your life? This very scenario is the subject of Alex Gibney's brilliant new documentary, Catching Hell.
Rob Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011
I first moved to New York City in 1996, and I have no need or desire to live anywhere else in the world. After living in New York City for over half o...
flavorwire.com | Nina MacLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011
We all have a few: the books we read when we were young that altered everything. These were the world-changers, the reality-definers, the stories you ...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
People seem to be reverting to the comfort of reading classics in the cold weather. We spotted lots of them out there, among the breezy reads. What we...
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.
Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011
My heart is hammering away as I'm driving up J.D. Salinger's long, snowy driveway, and it hits me like the night train: This isn't how I wanted it to happen.
Tom Payne | Posted 05.25.2011
We thought he was the tight-lipped, pap-menacing boffin who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out that he was a media popsy who was desperate to make contact with people.
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — He had a reputation as a literary recluse, but a trove of previously unseen letters written by J.D. Salinger to a British friend reveal...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
"Examined Lives" by James Miller New York Times Few readers will be astounded to learn that philosophers make as much of a mess of their lives as an...
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011
Happy New Year, darlings. All of you reading this piece have something in common: you survived 2010. Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.
Will Weaver | Posted 03.31.2012