Literature

Culture

Jim Carroll Has Died, Died

Jesse Walker | 9.13.2009 9:30 PM

Politics

Joyce Carol Oates: Was Suffocating Mary Jo Kopechne a "fortunate fall"?

Matt Welch | 8.31.2009 10:09 PM

Culture

Death of a Dystopian

The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard

Joanne McNeil | 6.19.2009 12:00 PM

Obituaries

Thomas M. Disch, RIP

Jesse Walker | 7.7.2008 10:52 PM

Culture

When Imaginary Worlds Collide

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2007 9:45 AM

Culture

Scientifiction Makes Good; Gernsback Smiles

Brian Doherty | 6.22.2007 6:15 PM

Culture

Is It Too Late To Piss on Kurt Vonnegut's Grave Using Kilgore Trout's Unusually Shaped Penis?

Nick Gillespie | 4.20.2007 7:30 AM

Culture

Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

Jesse Walker | 4.12.2007 9:32 AM

Politics

The Secret Historians

Jesse Walker | 12.7.2006 1:15 PM

Politics

Novel-Gate Backfires

Radley Balko | 11.2.2006 6:20 PM

Animal Behavior

In the Course of Time, the Supreme Court Came to Consist of Nine Purple-Assed Baboons

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2006 10:16 AM

Culture

The Parables of Octavia Butler

A science-fiction writer's rich libertarian legacy

Amy H. Sturgis | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

Dhalgren in New Orleans

A classic science fiction novel comes to life in the Big Easy.

Bidisha Banerjee | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Dhalgren in New Orleans

What an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy

Bidisha Banerjee | 9.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.

Mike Godwin | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

Exodus and Anti-Exodus

The power of literary mythmaking

Charles Paul Freund | 6.30.2003 12:00 AM

Literature

Peter Kok, R.I.P.

Jesse Walker | 6.25.2003 10:58 AM

Science Fiction

Pilgrimage to Other Worlds

Patrick Cox | 3.1.1987 12:00 PM

Literature

It's No Sin to Like Vonnegut

Jeff Riggenbach | 12.1.1986 12:00 PM

Dystopia

Dystopia, Feminist-Fundamentalist Style

Martha Bayles | 10.1.1986 12:00 PM

Literature

Brief Review: Collected Poems: 1949–1980

Bill Kauffman | 11.1.1985 12:00 PM

Dystopia

Doublethinking Our Way to 1984

Virginia Muller | 12.1.1983 12:00 PM

Literature

Heroic Excellence

Bruce Majors | 11.1.1983 12:00 PM

Literature

Another Side of Oscar Wilde

The world remembers him as a poet and playwright-but Oscar Wilde was also something of a libertarian reformer.

Wendy Grosscup | 1.1.1980 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Ursula Le Guin: Novelist

Jeff Riggenbach | 12.1.1979 12:00 PM

Literature

G.K. Chesterton: Radical Populist

David Friedman | 1.1.1979 12:00 PM

Literature

Ezra Pound: The Last Rower, A Political Profile

Wendy McElroy | 8.1.1978 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Triton

Jeff Riggenbach | 9.1.1977 12:00 PM

Literature

Is Modern Literature Really a Sewer?

Jeff Riggenbach | 3.1.1974 12:00 PM

Stanley Kubrick

Clockwork Orange

The knifers and the knifed

Jeff Riggenbach | 6.1.1972 12:00 PM