It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.
April 18th, 2012
Let’s say it’s 1978 and you are Dan J. Marlowe, once one of the hottest suspense novelists of your day
March 10th, 2012
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
January 4th, 2012
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
December 17th, 2011
Everywhere but here.
October 15th, 2011
on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television.
August 18th, 2011
Things Iowa Workshop Writers Say
July 30th, 2011
The most satisfying literary conflicts allow all antagonists to be right, each in his own way.
June 15th, 2011
Warren leaves us with several productively troubling conclusions.
June 13th, 2011
This was the canonical American art for which the claim "you had to be there" seemed strongest ...
May 19th, 2011
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
