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The Good Wife: Everything is Ending

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Four years ago, after a spate of increasingly ridiculous sex scandals (vacation to Argentina, anyone?), CBS asked us to consider the woman ...
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Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children

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I did not want to love The Emperor's Children. In short order, Claire Messud fixes us into a particular milieu - the wealthy, white...

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

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Canadian indie band Stars once sang that when there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. I can think of no better ...

On J.K. Rowling's "Cuckoo's Calling"

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In this edition of Law & Order: Private Detective, TotallyNotRowling rips a story straight from the headlines. Row-Braith takes the sor...

No Forgiveness for Only God Forgives

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By the time Detective Chang jabs a fifth chopstick into Van Gogh's brain, we're not just covering our eyes, we're wondering why...

Thoughts on the Trayvon Martin Trial

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I've struggled to record my exact feelings on yesterday's acquittal. The court delivered an awful verdict that suggested that certa...

When Bill Clinton asked Octavia Butler to Imagine the Future

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For whatever reason, I went down a mad Octavia Butler-related rabbit hole yesterday, which led me into, among other things, the classificati...

Great Effing Novels: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

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In brief: I have one thing to say: Mockingbird is one of the best novels I've ever read. I never thought I'd be moved to say such a...

On Apple's iOS 7.0 "Refresh"

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The office put up Apple's WWDC keynote on a giant projector screen, and hilarity ensued (and swiftly turned to horror). Five comments f...

The Peculiar Orientalism of The Orphan Master's Son

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Have you ever consumed an Eton mess? A popular English dessert, it earned its name from looking like what remains after a bunch of teenage ...