On insiders, outsiders, and the debate over Sri Ramakrishna’s sexuality.
October 6th, 2011
Mailer's false accents — Texas, Patrician, boxer-tough — are like Orson Welles's false noses.
October 3rd, 2011
The second installment of Glass’s history of Barney Rosset’s legendary publishing empire.
September 30th, 2011
"We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it."
September 20th, 2011
2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction.
September 17th, 2011
On buildings, plots, and mourning at Ground Zero.
September 11th, 2011
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
September 8th, 2011
On Barney Rosset and the history of Grove Press
September 7th, 2011
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
September 4th, 2011
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
August 31st, 2011
When asked which I might recommend that may have passed readers' notice, I settled on work by Jill Ciment and Jane Gardam.
August 29th, 2011
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.
August 27th, 2011
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
