The author of Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television, Lee Siegel is a cultualcommentator and art critic. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

One of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued cultural critics. -- Deborah Solomon New York Times The worldwide web is, for Siegel, essentially an optical illusion, an infinite hall of mirrors in which atomised, self-broadcasting individuals are really just staring at themselves Prospect This witty and intelligent polemic looks at how being online makes us more disconnected. Scotland on Sunday One of the heroic few. Guardian To read him is to be reminded of what criticism used to aspire to in terms of range, learning, high standards, and good writing and - dare one say it? - values. -- David Rieff In every case, Siegel is wildly and satisfyingly unpredictable. -- Janet Malcolm Savour his vigorous prose, and prepare to be surprised -- Pete Hammill Siegel is a zigzagging cultural omnivore... a confrontational enthusiast... an expert demolisher of critical group-think New York Observer