doesn''t

This is probably right, although to say that the novel lacks "satiric bite" doesn't mean it is not still essentially an attempt at satire, just as it's true that while Chronic City doesn''t especially wrestle with "slippery ideas," the claim that so-called "systems novels" -- a term coined by Thomas LeClair in his book on Don DeLillo, In the Loop -- can be defined by their own grappling with such ideas is altogether questionable.

The Reading Experience 2010

This is probably right, although to say that the novel lacks "satiric bite" doesn't mean it is not still essentially an attempt at satire, just as it's true that while Chronic City doesn''t especially wrestle with "slippery ideas," the claim that so-called "systems novels" -- a term coined by Thomas LeClair in his book on Don DeLillo, In the Loop -- can be defined by their own grappling with such ideas is altogether questionable.

Postmodernism 2010

This is probably right, although to say that the novel lacks "satiric bite" doesn't mean it is not still essentially an attempt at satire, just as it's true that while Chronic City doesn''t especially wrestle with "slippery ideas," the claim that so-called "systems novels" -- a term coined by Thomas LeClair in his book on Don DeLillo, In the Loop -- can be defined by their own grappling with such ideas is altogether questionable.

April 2010 2010

This is probably right, although to say that the novel lacks "satiric bite" doesn't mean it is not still essentially an attempt at satire, just as it's true that while Chronic City doesn''t especially wrestle with "slippery ideas," the claim that so-called "systems novels" -- a term coined by Thomas LeClair in his book on Don DeLillo, In the Loop -- can be defined by their own grappling with such ideas is altogether questionable.

Detecting a Wrongness 2010

A team doesn''t have to be perfect to make a run as the Flyers showed.

Five ugly truths about the Caps 2010

But what team in the salary cap era doesn''t have holes?

Five ugly truths about the Caps 2010

The army morale test rule doesn''t apply to the Crusaders, but does to the Saracens.

Archive 2009-05-01 Cromwell MkI 2009

The army morale test rule doesn''t apply to the Crusaders, but does to the Saracens.

Third Crusade at Camp Cromwell 22/05/09 Cromwell MkI 2009

If theater doesn't do that, if it doesn''t challenge us to be our better selves, our braver selves, teach us about each other - if we as artists and audience don't leave a show smarter, better, more human people than before, then what we saw not theater.

Michael Gene Sullivan: My Speech to the Membership: 700 Billion What? 2008

Young Ellen Page is so beautiful and so fetching and so talented she doesn''t need to hype the cutesy quotient as she does from tim to time.

Juno Ed Gorman 2008