Kurt Vonnegut’s Love Letters Show the Cynic’s Softer Side
A review of Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945.
James Bond, in Literature & Cinema: A Retrospective
There has never been a Bond film that wasn’t at least moderately popular. What is it they say about 007? Nobody does it better.
Ray Bradbury: What He Foresaw
With its twin visions of a pastoral past and a sterile, anti-culture future, Bradbury’s work remains timely a century after his birth.
The Sources of Stanley Kubrick’s Mystique
A review of Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, by David Mikics.
Woody Allen’s Witty, Meandering Memoir
A review of Apropos of Nothing, by Woody Allen.
The Great American Christmas-Album Tradition
What makes the genre so timeless and adaptable?
J. D. Salinger’s Creations Were Lovable Even When He Wasn’t
The author’s beguiling characters are sometimes hard to reconcile with his persona.
Susan Sontag’s Lifelong Literary Pose
A review of Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser.
How Theodor Geisel Became Dr. Seuss
A review of Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, by Brian Jay Jones.