Like Russell Banks and Raymond Carver, his contemporaries, Andre Dubus is often perceived as a "son of Ernest Hemingway," a judgment that would please neither Hemingway nor Dubus but one that serves as a rough -- often very rough -- frame of reference no...

Neil LaBute's Fat Pig is basically about a fat girl, Helen, and an attractive young man, Tom, who fall in love and it all ends in tears.Seriously overweight girls are socially unacceptable. And so, I'm told, are even marginally overweight girls. What a world, eh?...