As with many topics where I thought I had a lot to say, it turns out I can sum up my feelings about SXSW pretty easily: I wouldn't pay...

Sallie Brock, " The Fall of Richmond " (1867) from The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It : Another Civil War ...

I'm not the busiest person in the world and I don't take my privileges for granted, so maybe I should list all the ways I could be m...

Stephen Crane, " His New Mittens " (1898) from Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry : Not much happens here, plot-wise: a boy with ...

Moss Hart, " Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugurated Tomorrow ": A sketch from As Thousands Cheer  (1933) from American Musicals: The Co...

The Brilliant Very Good Original Robocop is not my favorite Verhoeven film, but it's a film I like a lot: you can watch it naively as...

Herman Melville, " The Lightning-Rod Man " (1819–1891) from Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confiden...

Last Saturday, after doing some mind work (Machine Learning is hard, yo), I decided to go through all my physical books and make note of wh...

Elizabeth Hardwick, " Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness "  (1965) from Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1973 ...