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Je préfère une seule fraise sauvage à tous les lauriers du monde
--Max Ernst

Art is constitutive–the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
--Goethe

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
--Flaubert

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
--Marcel Proust

Art is man's nature.
--Edmund Burke

• The Museum Of Sentiments - Part II - Raju Peddada - May 14
• The Vanished And Their Sold Memories - Part I - Raju Peddada - April 14
• How Plutarch Rescued Me - Raju Peddada - April 14
• Cold Quebec's Boiling Point - Peter Byrne - April 14
• Islamic Extremism And The Merchant Of Venice - Catherine Rosario - March 14
• Writing It Right In All Weather - Peter Byrne - March 14
• Fifty-Year Look Back 1963-2013 - Part II - Manuel García, Jr. - Dec. 13
• Fifty-Year Look Back 1963-2013 - Part I - Manuel García, Jr. - Nov. 13
• Interview with Novelist Beverly Gologorsky Jonah Raskin - Nov. 13
• Alice Munro's Nobel Prize For Literature Peter Byrne - Oct. 13
• The Gospel And Flawed Etymology Of "Social Media" Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - Oct. 13
• The Exit For Schism - Part III - Raju Peddada - Oct. 13
• The Quiet Of The Mountain Trail Glenn Reed - Sept. 13
• The Exit For Exploration - Part II - Raju Peddada - Sept. 13
• Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part I of II) - Michael Barker - Sept. 13
• Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part I of II) - Michael Barker - Sept. 13
• Why Are Men So Insecure? - Part II - Raju Peddada - Sept. 13
• The Exit Of Evocation - 278B for Kitchener-Waterloo - Part I - Raju Peddada - Aug. 13
• Wasting of Wonder - A painful recollection - Part II - Raju Peddada - July 13
• Wandering In Wonder - Memories of a boyhood - Part I - Raju Peddada - July 13
• The 55th Venice Biennale Of Art - Karen Moller - July 13
• Religious Slaughter & Rotten News! - Raju Peddada - June 13
• The Meat Piracy's Rat Gourmet! - Raju Peddada - May 13
• Hector Abad's Memoir: Oblivion - Raju Peddada - May 13
• Patrick Keiller's Look-and-Think Films - Peter Byrne - March 13
• Nobody Home - Peter Byrne - March 13
• Flat On My Back In Memory Lane - Peter Byrne - Jan. 13
• The Lady From Chincholi - Raju Peddada - Jan. 13
• Report from Canada's Shaw Festival -- 2012 - Isidor Saslav - Dec. 12
• Edward Lear Of The Disappearing Nose - Peter Byrne - Nov. 12
• Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust - Raju Peddada - Nov. 12
• Random Conversation #1 - Raju Peddada - Oct. 12
• Feminism Made A Man Out Of Me - Jonah Raskin - Oct. 12
• Remembering Lenny Bruce - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 12
• The Muscle Of The Heart - Fabio De Propris & Peter Byrne - July 12
• Stats And The Iquitos Girls - Bo Keeley - July 12
• The Alluring Time Capsule - Raju Peddada - July 12
• The Boy Wonder Peter Brook Is 87 - Peter Byrne - July 12
• Screen Distractions: Old Story - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - July 12
• Our Spring Is Extinguished - Raju Peddada - July 12
• Aliens To Autonomy: Gauging Deleuze And Guattari's "Ridiculousness" - Edmund Berger - June 12
• How To Read Marcel Proust - Raju Peddada - June 12
• Freud's Dogs - Peter Byrne - June 12
• Honey And Pepper, A Cat Tale - Manuel García, Jr. - June 12
• Acting Out - Charles Marowitz - June 12
• A Man Who Influenced The Influencers - Raju Peddada - June 12
• Society's Dead Look Into A Killing - Peter Byrne - May 12
• The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's gift of beauty (Part III) - Raju Peddada - May 12
• Walking New York - Jonah Raskin - May 12
• The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Humanistic Enterprise (Part II) - Raju Peddada - May 12
• The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Monumental Quest (Part I) - Raju Peddada - April 12
• Getting Stanislavsky Wrong - Charles Marowitz - March 12
• Poetic Blending, To A New Dérèglement: Guido Monte - Francesca Saieva - Feb. 12
• The Boarding Pass - Raju Peddada - Feb. 12
• Jack London In Black And White - Jonah Raskin - Feb. 12
• Working With Havel - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 12
• History: Sired By Literary Nomads - Part II - Raju Peddada - Feb. 12
• History: Sired By Literary Nomads - Part I - Raju Peddada - Jan. 12
• Journalists Mourned And Bemoaned - Peter Byrne - Jan. 12
• The Book: A Palimpsest Of Many Tales - Raju Peddada - Jan. 12
• Christopher Hitchens, Coyote, Or Saint Paul? - Manuel García, Jr. - Jan. 12
• The New Definition Of Hope! - Raju Peddada - Jan. 12
• Football: Seeing From Cultural Aspects - Kazue Daikoku - Dec. 11
• Come Fly Away - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 11
• Why Does The Front Engine Have Three lights? - Raju Peddada - Nov. 11
• Claude Monet et Giverny - Georges Clemenceau (FR) - Nov. 11
• Bedtime Story - Peter Byrne - Nov. 11
• The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part II - Raju Peddada - Nov. 11
• Shortcuts To Comfort: James M. Cain - Peter Byrne - Oct. 11
• The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part I - Raju Peddada - Oct. 11
• Criticizing The Critics - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 11
• The Recycling Of Malignance - Raju Peddada - Oct. 11
• Alan Lomax: An Ear For Folk - Peter Byrne - Sept. 11
• Shakespearean Scraps - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 11
• Requiem For An Iconic School - Isidor Saslav - Sept. 11
• The Man They Called Baldy - Raju Peddada - Aug. 11
• The Great Satan - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - Aug. 11
• Exonerating Kazan - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 11
• Death of the "Fat Bastard" - Peter Byrne - Aug. 11
• People And Their Personal Vibrators - Raju Peddada - Aug. 11
• The Mystical Genius Of Kabir - Raju Peddada - July 11
• A Parent and Teacher Conference Part II - Raju Peddada - July 11
• The State Of Education In America: A Teacher's Perspective - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - June 11
• The Wellspring Of Orhan Pamuk - Fabio De Propris - June 11
• Remembering John Cage Karen Moller - June 11
• A Parent and Teacher Conference Part I - Raju Peddada - June 11
• The Rebellion Against The Book: College Students 2011 - Jonah Raskin - June 11
• An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part II - Raju Peddada - June 11
• An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part I - Raju Peddada - May 11
• The Question Of Edward Said: Mongrel Intellectual - Jonah Raskin - May 11
• Rescued By The Rescued - Raju Peddada - May 11
• London Reading - Peter Byrne - Apr. 11
• Nothing Is Sacred: Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalist - Jonah Raskin - Apr. 11
• Getting The Story - Peter Gorman - Apr. 11
• Celebrating Shaw's Chicago Century - Isidor Saslav - Apr. 11
• Variations On A Midsummer Night's Dream - Charles Marowitz - Apr. 11
• A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - Part II - Raju Peddada - Apr. 11
• A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - Raju Peddada - March 11
• The Murderous Care Of Our Philosopher-Kings - Maxwell Clark - March 11
• Bladder Cross-Training In A Michigan Garage - Bo Keeley - March 11
• Soccer Feet: The World From The Grassy Pitch - Fabio De Propris - March 11
• Charles Bernstein's All The Whiskey In Heaven - Maxwell Clark - March 11
• Short Guide To Writing And Self-Editing - Bo Keeley - March 11
• The Tempest Of Capital - Maxwell Clark - Feb. 11
• The Vanished Mr. Olbermann - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 11
• Dirty Teaching - Marie Rennard - Feb. 11
• The Journey "Beyond": Archetypal Meanings for Today's Men - Francesca Saieva - Feb. 11
• Four Theses On Marx's "Method Of Political Economy" - Maxwell Clark - Feb. 11
• Shelley The Efflorescent - Maxwell Clark - Jan. 11
• No Pain, No Gain - Jan Baughman - Dec. 10
• Stieg Larsson's Dark Vision & Hollywood - Jonah Raskin - Nov. 10
• The Tumultuous Afterlife Of Paul Gauguin - Peter Byrne - Nov. 10
• Love Me Tender (Far From Walhalla) - Fabio De Propris - Nov. 10
• French Literature And Jean Giono - Graham Lea - Nov. 10
• Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 10
• Fantenomics - Fabio De Propris - Oct. 10
• Roberto Bolaño's Poetic Justice - Peter Byrne - Sept. 10
• The Age Of Olivier - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 10
• Andy Warhol: The Art Of The Commodity (5 Theses) - Maxwell Clark - Sept. 10
• The Great Game Lost - Peter Byrne - Aug. 10
• Langella In Close-Up - Charles Marowitz - July 10
• Techspeak And The Abuse Of Language - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - June 10
• Il Manifesto: On the Wrong Side and Kicking - Fabio De Propris - June 10
• Legal Measures - Charles Marowitz - June 10
• Time - Michael Doliner - June 10
• J.D.'s Long Shadow - Peter Byrne - May 10
• Acting Out - Charles Marowitz - May 10
• Reconsidering Mencken - Charles Marowitz - May 10
• Long Kesh And Environs - Peter Byrne - May 10
• John Gilbert: Last Of The Red Hot Lovers - Charles Marowitz - May 10
• Kerouac And Ginsberg - Jonah Raskin - May 10
• Collaboration - Art Shay - March 10
• Orientalism In London - Peter Byrne - March 10
• The Jukebox Blues - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - March 10
• T.S. Eliot: Un Objet Trouvé - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 10
• Lunch With Louis Auchincloss - Isidor Saslav - Feb. 10
• Good Nudes From My Naughty World - Art Shay - Jan. 10
• Hunting The Wild And Boring Banishees In Upper Michigan - Art Shay - Jan. 10
• King Of What World? - Art Shay - Dec. 09
• Asta Nielsen & Hamlet's Gender-Benders - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 09
• Never On Time: Robert Frank And The Americans - Peter Byrne - Nov. 09
• Shakespeare Refertilized - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 09
• How Granta Got Lost On The Way to Chicago - Peter Byrne - Nov. 09
• The Monuments Of Civilization: Petra - Raju Peddada - Nov. 09
• The Monuments Of Civilization: Analysis Of Classics - Raju Peddada - Nov. 09
• Kookaburra Bird Shit - Art Shay - Sept. 09
• How Kafka Became So Kafkaesque - Michael Doliner - Aug. 09
• On Burrowed Time - Art Shay, with Steve Keeley - Aug. 09
• Transhumance And The Estive: A Revival Of Pastoralism - Graham Lea - July 09
• FRENCH BREAD: The Baguette Versus Pain de Campagne - Graham Lea - June 09
• Observations Of The Body And American Culture From The Buffet Line - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - June 09
• Crossed Etymologies - Marie Rennard - June 09
• What Does It Mean To Be Sexy? - Raju Peddada - May 09
• My Camera Outpaces My Books In Royalties - Art Shay - May 09
• I Am Che Guevara - Peter Byrne - April 09
• Take It With A Grin Of Salt - Raju Peddada - April 09
• The Deconstruction Of That Sunday Morning On Madison - Raju Peddada - Feb. 09
• Cyrano Eternal - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 09
• What Is Luxury? - Raju Peddada - Feb. 09
• Remembering Paul Scofield - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 09
• Money In The Picture: London Art - Peter Byrne - Jan. 09
• Convalescing Kings - Raju Peddada - Jan. 09
• Harold Pinter: 1930 - 2008 - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 09
• Exclusive Interview With Prince Hamlet - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 09
• Indelible India! - Raju Peddada - Jan. 09
• Bollywood Bungles - Raju Peddada - Nov. 08
• R.I.P. Louis "Studs" Terkel - 1912-2008 - Peter Byrne - Nov. 08
• Travels In Morocco: Our Brands are our Goodwill Ambassadors - Raju Peddada - Nov. 08
• Acquired Taste: Seeing Beyond The Obvious - Raju Peddada - Oct. 08
• A Slow Shutter On Art Shay - Raju Peddada - Oct. 08
• Jesse James: The Myth And The Man - Louis Proyect - Sept. 08
• Rare Medium - Art Shay - Sept. 08
• LETTERS AGAINST THE WAR - Tiziano Terzani - Sept. 8
• The Fall Of Meyerhold - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 08
• Fusing Brecht & Bentley - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 08
• Eric & Bert - Peter Byrne - Aug. 08
• A Wreath For Jo Stafford - Charles Marowitz - July 08
• Chicago's Gay Parade And Related Gay Memories - Art Shay - July 08
• Shooting Szell In Cleveland - Art Shay - June 08
• George Carlin: 1937-2008 - Charles Marowitz - June 08
• The Democratic Convention -- Chicago 1968 - Art Shay - June 08
• Art Shay's Traces Of A Bygone America - Karen Moller - June 08
• Norman Mailer, A Noncombatant At The Siege - Peter Byrne - June 08
• Expats' Chicago: London, 1968 - Charles Marowitz - June 08
• The Real French Warm Their Hearts - Peter Byrne - May 08
• ...And Now For A Short Commercial Break - Charles Marowitz - May 08
• Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine - Charles Marowitz - Apr. 08
• Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - Charles Marowitz - March 08
• Second Sex - Martin Murie - Feb. 08
• London Laughing - Peter Byrne - Feb. 08
• Simone de Beauvoir One Hundred Years After Her Birth - Karen Moller - Feb. 08
• The Unfinished Business Of Simone de Beauvoir - Marie Rennard - Feb. 08
• Simone de Beauvoir: The Mother Of Us All - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 08
• Not Shutting Up For A Second: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Peter Byrne - Feb. 08
• Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age - Louis Proyect - Feb. 08
• The Crime Novels Of Patricia Highsmith - Louis Proyect - Jan. 08
• Groucho, Chico, & Harpo - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 08
• Parting Words - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 08
• Wilfrid Sheed's The House That George Built - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 07
• Sexual Equality - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 07
• Unauthorized Considerations Of A Housewife About Things She'd Better Not Feel Concerned With - Marie Rennard - Nov. 07
• On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of On the Road - Karen Moller - Oct. 07
• Notes From Cheyenne - Martin Murie - Oct. 07
• Politicolingo & The Vanishing Art Of Rhetoric - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 07
• Send Off The Clowns - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 07
• Gulag For Critics - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 07
• Is Life A Set Of Infundibula? - Carol Warner Christen - Aug. 07
• Remembering Joe Orton - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 07
• Linguistic Blending - Francesca Saieva - Aug. 07
• Who Was Michael Chekhov? - Charles Marowitz - July 07
• New Art And Imperialism In Dublin - Peter Byrne - June 07
• Remembering Mstislav Rostropovich - Isidor Saslav & Arthur Lieb - May 07
• More Revivals Of Seldom Heard Operas In New York - Isidor Saslav - May 07
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) - Bijou (1989-2007) - Gilles d'Aymery - April 07
• The Day Of The 'Cello - Isidor Saslav - April 07
• Schizoid Comedy & Stephen Colbert - Charles Marowitz - March 07
• Streetcar Derailed In Denmark - Charles Marowitz - March 07
• Concerts And An Opera In New York - Isidor Saslav - March 07
• Pimps and Ponces at War - Peter Byrne - Feb. 07
• "The Producers" In Denmark - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 07
• As Time Goes By - Michael Doliner - Jan. 07
• Do You Know The Way To San José? - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 07
• "The Queen" - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 06
• The Coronation Of Harold Pinter - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 06
• People - Peter Byrne - Dec. 06
• Bring The Old Christmas Carols Back - George Beres - Dec. 06
• The Birth Of The Blues - Peter Byrne - Nov. 06
• Italy Invaded By Troupes Armed With Theory - Peter Byrne - Nov. 06
• Re-Marx - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 06
• Total Refusal - Peter Byrne - Oct. 06
• Where're The Stars? - Peter Byrne - Sept. 06
• Tony Blair: Child Of The Hippie Generation - Sept. 06
• Oriana Fallaci, 1929-2006 - Peter Byrne - Sept. 06
• Honni Soit Qui Malibu - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 06
• Free Time - Peter Byrne - Sept. 06
• Prince Charming And Cinderella's Stepfather - Karen Moller - Sept. 06
• On The Barricades In May 1968 - Karen Moller - Aug. 06
• Fathers - Peter Byrne - Aug. 06
• A Place In The Sun - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 06
• From San Francisco To Paris In 1959 - Karen Moller - Aug. 06
• Tina Modotti: A Blank Face Between Art And Revolution - Peter Byrne - Aug. 06
• Exclusive Interview With William Shakespeare - Charles Marowitz - Aug. 06
• Post Cards - Peter Byrne - July 06
• Venice: Nobody's Town - Peter Byrne - July 06
• The Pictures - Peter Byrne - July 06
• Demise Of The Bard - Charles Marowitz - July 06
• Three Faces Of Ostracism - Gilles d'Aymery - June 06
• Flowers For Lunch - Peter Byrne - June 06
• Decoding The Da Vinci Code - Charles Marowitz - June 06
• Season Of Trouble - Peter Byrne - June 06
• The Hanging Of Peter Handke From The Orthodox Gallows - Gilles d'Aymery - June 06
• Bring Back Dada - Charles Marowitz - May 06
• Television And The Witch Hunt - Louis Proyect - May 06
• Whatever Became Of Studs Lonigan? - Peter Byrne - May 06
• The Peter Handke Controversy - Gilles d'Aymery - May 06
• Imperialism And Plagiarism - Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan - May 06
• Beckett At A Hundred Or Who's Celebrating Watt? - Peter Byrne - May 06
• Improving Shakespeare - Charles Marowitz - April 06
• Nanni Moretti's Il Caimano - Peter Byrne - April 06
• Keith Jarrett In San Francisco - Gilles d'Aymery - March 06
• Fat Pigs And The American Drama - Charles Marowitz - March 06
• The Love Extortionists - Charles Marowitz - March 06
• Dirt Places - Martin Murie - March 06
• Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight - Jan Baughman - Feb. 06
• The Assumption Of Oprah Winfrey - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 06
• Oprah Ignores True Problems with Truth - George Beres - Feb. 06
• Monkey Business - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 06
• Las Vegas: "When We Dead Awaken" - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 06
• "CAPOTE": How Far Should We Go? - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 05
• End Of Story - Alma A. Hromic - Nov. 05
• Cinematizing Shakespeare - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 05
• I'd Walk A Million Miles For One Of Your Smiles - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 05
• Bob Dylan's Chronicles Volume One - Louis Proyect - Oct. 05
• Piers Paul Read's Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 05
• An Appreciation Of Christopher Fry: 1907-2005 - Charles Marowitz - July 2005
• Heading Home To Tavistock Square - Tim Keane - July 2005
• Brecht In Hollywood - Charles Marowitz - June 2005
• McLibel: Food For Thought And Inspiration For The Soul - Jan Baughman - June 2005
• Saul Bellow In Retrospect - Louis Proyect - June 2005
• Peter Brook At Eighty - Charles Marowitz - June 2005
• Chris Matthews, The Interviewer As Mugger - Charles Marowitz - May 2005
• Wearing Two Hats: The Director Takes On The Critic - Charles Marowitz - May 2005
• Running On Fumes: A Journey To The End Of Empire - Phil Rockstroh - May 2005
• Of UberCulture And The River - Phil Rockstroh - April 2005
• The Art And Politics Of Film Part III - John Steppling amp; David Walsh - April 2005
• Of Margaret Mitchell, Blind Willie McTell, Wonder Bread, New York City Real Estate, And The Road To Proto-Fascism - Phil Rockstroh - April 2005
• The Art And Politics Of Film Part II - John Steppling amp; David Walsh - April 2005
• Huxley In Tinsel Town - Charles Marowitz - April 2005
• The Art And Politics Of Film Part I - John Steppling amp; David Walsh - March 2005
• English vs. American Theatre Criticism - Charles Marowitz - March 2005
• Learning From The Classics - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 2005
• The Ghost In The Hologram - Joe Bageant, Phil Rockstroh & John Steppling - Feb. 2005
• A Death In The Family - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 2005
• Arthur Miller - Louis Proyect - Feb. 2005
• Sha Sha Higby: An Appreciation - Milo Clark - Feb. 2005
• Le Chant des Partisans - Maurice Druon, Joseph Kessel & Anna Marly - Jan. 2005
• America Has Left The Building... Part II - Phil Rockstroh & John Steppling - Jan. 2005
• Johnny Carson - John Steppling - Jan. 2005
• America Has Left The Building... - Phil Rockstroh & John Steppling - Jan. 2005
• Working With Havel - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 2005
• Let's Hear It for the Lyricists - Philip Greenspan - Jan. 2005
• The Sopranos, Capitalism And Organized Crime - Louis Proyect - Nov. 2004
• Cultural Entropy - John Steppling - Nov. 2004
• Dying Empire Bebop: The Sedition Of Ecstatic Novelty - Phil Rockstroh - Nov. 2004
• The Genius Of Marlon Brando - John Steppling - July 2004
• Ron And Ray - Gilles d'Aymery - June 2004
• The Silly Season Amidst Terminal Decay - Gilles d'Aymery - Dec. 2003
• Compay Segundo And Benny Carter - Louis Proyect - July 2003
• PLI SELON PLI: A Modern Masterpiece - Gregory Elich - Feb. 2003
• The Tribulations Of The Toads - Gilles d'Aymery - July 2002
• Explico Algunas Cosas - Pablo Neruda - March 2002
• The Nebulous Middle Mind - Gilles d'Aymery - Dec. 2001
• Le Déserteur - Boris Vian - Dec. 2001