The words in George Saunders’s debut novel have a particularly oily, electric, tactile quality.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Ebert was in our house on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself.
Like transmissions from another time or dimension, Julia Haslett’s personal journey bleeds into her biography of Weil.
The production is far from a party and more akin to a long soiree in which the cool people haven’t arrived yet.