Books
“Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary.”
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Being able to comfortably shift gears between “high” and “low” culture is one of the easiest ways in which a contemporary critic can gain the reader’s trust.
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L. M. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.
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Ethan Mordden’s volume openly defies anyone to dismiss the American musical as mere fluff.
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In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.
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Convenience Store Woman is an achievement — a satiric look at a mind that is intent on remaining empty.
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Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
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Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.
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There’s something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth’s fiction.
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Book Commentary: “Fahrenheit 451” and Cultural Betrayal
It never occurs to him that, by championing just the great works of Western Civilization and consigning pop culture (notably science-fiction) to the flames, he’s exercising his own pernicious brand of censorship.
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