On 'Hitchcock' and the enduring mysteries of 'Psycho'
December 20th, 2012
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
On the American country music legend
April 27th, 2013
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.
April 28th, 2012
On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 24th, 2013
Many have been sleeping in money. The money is congregating in the street.
October 21st, 2011
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
