Monthly Archives: April 2016

my review of Chris Gavaler’s On the Origin of Superheroes is now up at the Los Angeles Review of Books web site. “SUPERHEROES, as characters and as a genre, are frustrating to study. Once any sort of critical apparatus is applied to … Continue reading →

(an essay/story I couldn’t sell, so I’m putting it here) That Most Decadent of Cities by Jess Nevins after Javier Marias Metropolises, those colossal beasts of urban agglomeration, can be defined, delineated–differentiated–in many ways. The character traits of cities, for … Continue reading →