Terry Teachout has provoked me to thought (much to the consternation of DarkoV — but what has he done for us lately?) with this list of 10 American novels he wishes he'd written. It's a rather oddly constructed exercise. The first question screaming to b

The honorees are selected by the National Council on the Arts, which advises the National Endowment for the Arts. Members of the council include Terry Teachout, Frank Price and Lee Greenwood. The honors are given to individuals or organizations "...deser

Yesterday Terry Teachout conducted a “purely personal inventory” of the ten American novels he “most wished” he had written, and this morning Patrick Kurp countered with his own list of ten. If you removed the alien and seditious titles from my own three

Broderick Crawford as populist pol Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Of 10 American novels critic Terry Teachout posted yesterday that he wishes he’d written, only All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren similarly appeals to me. I

Weegee: Naked City (Steven Kasher, 521 W. 23, up through Feb. 25). A compact and atmospheric exhibition of 125 prints by America's greatest tabloid news photographer. Sad, sordid, appalling, and electrifyingly exciting, these hard-edged black-and-white i

How Can Skeptics Make Convincing Religious Art? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Now that the boutique atheism of such aggressive secularists as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens has become chic, you m