Obama's speech is "coming from his loins."

Says Axelrod, apparently noticing how ... odd that sounds and adding, jocosely, "I just wanted to say loins. I wanted to see if I coul...

Told to "relax and allow this" writing assignment "to work for you," a college student describes his sexual attraction to various female instructors...

... and is suspended — from Oakland University — for violating a rule that says "nor shall any person in any way intimidate, harass, th...

When we reread a book, we can "behave towards" it the way we behave towards a painting.

Think about why rereading a book is better than reading it the first time. When we read a book for the first time the very process of labori...

"Justice Anthony M. Kennedy... said he aspired to Ernest Hemingway’s stripped-down language..."

Talk about falling short of your aspirations! Of all the Justices on the Court today, I find that Justice Kennedy writes in the least strai...

Photo blues.

Oh dear... You know what that is? It's the first digital photograph I ever took. I'm uploading it to Flickr tonight along with 2,00...

It's the new Bloggingheads with me and Jane Hamsher.

Here's the whole thing: The segments are: Jane reports on the two conventions’ different vibes (04:56) How America’s obsession with imag...

Live-blogging the McCain VP announcement. UPDATE: "MCCAIN PICKS SARAH PALIN."

8:26: I don't know what it says about me, but I got up this morning and didn't think about the McCain VP announcement on my own. It ...

"What scenes would one like to have filmed?"

This is a great question that Robert Hughes asked Vladimir Nabokov in 1965. You can read his answer in one of my favorite books, Strong Opin...

Life metaphors of the great authors. Here's a Q&A from an old BBC interview with Vladimir Nabokov: [Q] Tolstoy said, so they say, ...