Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, critics usually considered Michael Cunningham to be just another of the growing number of novelists chronicling the experience of gay Americans in the age of AIDS. These novelists included David Leavitt,...

Evening Running time 126 minutes Written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot Directed by Lajos KoltaiStarring Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Natasha Richardson Lajos Koltai’s Evening, from a screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham, based on the novel by Ms. Minot, seems to...

EVENING Running time 113 minutes Written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot Directed by Lajos KoltaiStarring Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy Red-faced, I’m feeling contrite this week. I rant against mediocrity and plead so ardently for intelligent movies about real people saying...

Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages, $25. Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days is an extraordinary book, as ambitious as it is generous; and the depth of its kindness, or grace, is to convey that it is we ourselves, the multitude, who...

Wednesday 1stSeriously, how is it June already? It feels like just yesterday that it was gray, cold and dreary and the city's females were swooping around in unfortunate ponchos …. Regardless, the good news is that weekend evenings will soon see a quiet hush in...