September 10, 2018: I believe that everyone is entitled to one or two irrational fears in life, and mine are …
No, I DON’T WANNA DANCE
A Lovely Little Implosion
August 5, 2018: That’s Sander Hall you’re seeing blown up. The building—a high-rise dorm commissioned by the University of Cincinnati—was …
Won’t You Read “The Neighbor”?
July 22, 2018: By that I mean, please won’t you read my piece on The Neighbor, Joseph Souza’s new thriller? …
Old Gray Lady, Three
July 2, 2018: Joan, Maggie, and Judi would really like you to read my latest piece—an essay this time—for the New …
Sexographies: Your New Favorite Made-Up Word
June 23, 2018: The Madrid-based Peruvian feminist Gabriela Wiener is fighting the good fight, sex-wise. Sexographies, her first book translated …
Vertigo at 60
April 24, 2018: Judy, Judy, Judy…what did Jimmy Stewart do to you? I had the pleasure of thinking this through …
Trainspotting at 25
February 27, 2018: Listen here, laddies and lassies: Trainspotting (book, not movie) turns twenty-five this year, and I just wrote …
Keith, I Said; I Said Keith
December 27, 2017: Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith in The Awl Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith Keith …
Old Gray Lady, Two
December 1, 2017: My second piece for the New York Times Book Review—a cluster review of kids’ books that would …
Best Forgotten VII: One of These Days, Alice…
October 6, 2017: Funny how the first two times I devoted a Best Forgotten column to a movie (see here …