Criticism

Made voiceless and infirm, Roger Ebert appears more prolific than ever, writing endlessly about his life, his politics, his passions, and more.

When an American reads the history of his country from the founding of Jamestown to the firing on Fort Sumter, he is moving in a world that is frequently foreign to him. The accidents of place, or even the more intimate ones of heredity...

Endorsing Portnoy’s penis as a guide post for literary sex is like saying guys these days should act more like Don Draper.

They join a growing list of vital websites providing “serious consideration of serious books” at a time when print media is fast abandoning the practice.

Vanessa Gould’s documentary casts origami as an art form coming of age with a wide range of immensely complex constructions.

While here are only two freestanding book reviews in this fair country, we do have a wealth of best book lists. Here is a meta-list: The Best of the Best Books of 2009.

Maybe the publication of Ford County means that short stories are making a comeback.

The Original of Laura is an obviously incomplete work, shepherded and huckstered into the marketplace by Nabokov’s greedy son.

Five books that portray contemporary life in Afghanistan, providing a perspective that’s essential to understanding the war.

A review of Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits and Robin Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.