Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once. Lee Siegel Read Quote
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else’s romantic crimes. Lee Siegel Read Quote
Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. Lee Siegel Read Quote
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee’s films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups. Lee Siegel Read Quote
It became inevitable that television would address life’s mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are. Lee Siegel Read Quote
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself. Lee Siegel Read Quote
