Critical Essay by Hollis Alpert
Film critics who write novels are often suspected of trying to enter the world of filmmaking through the back door. In Vincent Canby's case, let us dispose of t...
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Critical Essay by Webster Schott
"Living Quarters" is the story of a charmingly psychotic woman in the deranged late 20th century. It's told in language that shimmers. It'...
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Critical Essay by Julian Barnes
[There's] much generic ambiguity about Vincent Canby's [Living Quarters]: the crime, victim and culprit are swiftly identified, and the book sets off in ...
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Critical Essay by Benjamin Demott
Can a chilly, misanthropic, half-crippled, middle-aged, twice-divorced, multimillionaire WASP whose hobby is researching the Albigensian heresies find happiness with...
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Critical Essay by Daphne Merkin
[Unnatural Scenery] whirrs with rapid, centrifugal force, yet gives little indication of the generative impulse behind all the noise—other than possibly an inte...
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The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve t...
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The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve t...
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When Sundance Film Festival programming director Geoff Gilmore stood before a sold-out crowd at the 1,300-seat Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 20 and introduced Tom DiCillo as “one...
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Critical Essay by Hollis Alpert
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
