Balanchine’s Ideal Women
A review of Serenade: A Balanchine Story, by Toni Bentley.
The End of the Affair at 70
To read The End of the Affair is to be reminded of a time when a novelist could imagine, and admire, a heroine willing to pay a steep price for ...
S. J. Perelman: A Humorist for All Seasons
A review of S. J. Perelman: Writings, edited by Adam Gopnik.
The Inscrutable Shirley Jackson
A review of The Letters of Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman.
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.