Dara Mandle and James Panero

Dara Mandle is a Whitman-inspired Democrat. James Panero is an Evelyn Waugh-loving Republican. James thinks guilt motivates liberalism. Dara thinks conservatives are guilty.

It’s the marriage that sounds like a sitcom.
Together, we maintain Supremefiction.com.

The poet Wallace Stevens, in his long poem “Notes toward a Supreme Fiction,” wrote, “it must be abstract. It must give pleasure.” Like much of what Stevens wrote, we’re not sure what that means. But we like it. We have long admired Stevens’s practicality, and in our weblog, we aim to get practical too, with reviews of art, television, shopping, books, movies, and New York restaurants.

For more about us, we invite you to visitdaraandjames.com, our family home on the internet.

You can keep up with James’s day job, as an editor and writer at The New Criterion, through his TNC article archive and his anthology of other publications. He can be reached at jamespanero (at) gmail (dot) com.