Renata Adler Summary

Adler, Renata (1938—) Renata Adler achieved a controversial success and notoriety in the New York literary scene. Her film reviews for the New York Times (collected in A Year in the Dark, 1969)... Read more

Critical Essay by Jacob Brackman In excruciating conversations over drinks around the city, during the fourteen months that Renata Adler served as film critic for The New York Times, I often found my... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Corliss It was a big mistake for the New York Times to ask Renata Adler to replace Bosley Crowther as the paper's movie critic in 1967, and a small disaster for Miss ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne Tyler [Speedboat, Renata Adler's first novel,] was a wonderfully fresh and thoughtful book, written as if the author neither knew nor cared how other people wrote; she w... Read more

Critical Essay by Oliver Conant Plot and characterization are barely bothered with in Pitch Dark. The breakup is a foregone conclusion—no suspense there. Adler refuses to begin her novel in an... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph Epstein I do not have the attention span to sustain a lengthy depression, but I have of late been reading two novelists who do: Renata Adler and Joan Didion. I think of them ... Read more