Rakoff acknowledges that it takes a lot to make people care.
For Stiller, apparently, James Thurber’s classic story is occasion to craft what eventually amounts to a totem to his own vanity.
“The Perfect Batch: Breaking Bad Cast Favorites” is part of FSLC and AMC’s week-long celebration of the series.
In a lot of ways, See Now Then tries to be like a Virginia Woolf novel, particularly To the Lighthouse.
So you’re sitting at a café reading a new, smutty, and not particularly enlightening short-story collection by Junot Díaz.
Will Egypt’s democracy, regardless of which constitutional model it’s styled after, be carried out to the end?
It creates a this-is-your-life kind of recap of how the long hours around the publication of those two great novels, The Corrections and Freedom, were killed.
What’s left to say of the film critic who haunts all others?
These days, any comic by Daniel Clowes or Seth unmistakably belongs to each man—in the style of their lines, the speech of their characters, and the mood of their fictional worlds.
The expanse of the novel allows Russell to exercise the very considerable prowess of her imagination.
Ann Beattie speaks to her characters’ persistence in the face of loneliness and ambiguity.
That few people seem willing to demand more from criticism is part of why our craft is in freefall.
The villains in the battle over health care reform in the U.S. are obvious, right?
My meeting with New Yorker film editor and film listings writer Richard Brody involved no finger pointing.
The new cover is a knottier enterprise, much like the We Are All Hussein movement: it’s a satire of a misconception.
On the show, when a character compliments another character on bettering himself, or simply changing, it’s usually a sick joke.
Whether writing tight “Talk of the Town” pieces or mammoth features, Ross places her subject’s quirks and obsessions in the context of his or her industry.
Whitney Balliett was less a straight-ahead critic than a combination analyst, social historian, feature reporter, and sketch artist.
Durgnat’s core strength was his refusal to be seduced by intellectual fashion.