The solo artist plays four nursing home residents who share a secret past
When she talks, K. Flay uses big words.Nascent.Dichotomous. Alienation.It's the sort of vernacular that writers splay all over the page when they're trying to sound intelligent. But Flay actually is intelligent; there's her dual degrees from Stanford in psychology and sociology, for one thing. Rig ... More >>
In an ongoing effort to better understand the many classic albums of Los Angeles, we've come upon an equation that gets to the heart of the matter without much thinking, analysis, verbiage or any of those other "old-model" music criticism techniques that have become obsolete. Specifically, ... More >>
When drowning oneself seems like a good option
Plus, PaleyFest09 and other events to make you forget you fucked up over Leonard Cohen, April 10-16
When writing about them really mattered
Expatriate artist R.B. Kitaj's bittersweet homecoming
The singer-songwriter’s memoirs, round one
Edward Wilson aims to keep the theater young
Loose lips and sinking ships
Joan Didion and her Year of Magical Thinking
Bob Dylan on . . . Bob Dylan
The candidate know what’s cool, but are the kids buying it?
In John Kerry, the Democrats may have themselves a winner
James Wood on literary fervor, bad movies and his first novel, The Book Against God
James Wood on literary fervor, bad movies and his first novel, The Book Against God
Ellroy via Shelton, plus Till Human Voices Wake Us
Bryan Ferry twists the love song again
Donna Tartt comes home
C.K. Stead’s novel, The Secret History of Modernism
Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell
Playwright Caryl Churchill takes us deeper into the mad forest
The creepy Fantasyland of Survivor, Temptation Island and The Mole
The good life and hard times of Thom Gunn
Bush, Gore and the limits of orthodoxy
The strange world of Patricia Highsmith
Poetry and Los Angeles at the Millennium
Larry Atlas' new play about moral eclipse
