In the following review, Tandon offers a generally favorable assessment of Wonder Boys.
Henry James exhorted the potential novelist “to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.” ...
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In the following essay, Himmelsbach discusses Chabon's literary success, the author's struggle to write a second novel, and Wonder Boys.
Michael Chabon was just your not-so-average li...
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In the following review, Kaveney offers a positive assessment of Wonder Boys.
When a much-praised young writer turns to writing about writing, the patter of diminishing returns usually approaches. ...
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In the following review of Wonder Boys, Gorra finds flaws in the novel's disparate plotlines and the protagonist's disingenuous observations.
It [Wonder Boys] starts well. “The...
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In the following review of Wonder Boys, Bick finds the novel's conclusion overly romanticized, but commends Chabon's emotionally complex protagonist.
Chabon has changed the setting of...
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In the following excerpt, Birkerts offers a positive assessment of Wonder Boys.
Novelists writing novels about novelists are like doctors taking their own blood pressure and temperature. The thermo...
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In the following review, Yardley praises Wonder Boys and affirms Chabon's literary accolades.
Michael Chabon is so stupendously gifted and accomplished a writer at so early an age that it is...
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In the following review, Eder offers a positive assessment of Wonder Boys.
[In Wonder Boys on] one dark night, though by no means his darkest, Grady Tripp, a writer-in-residence at a Pennsylvania c...
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In the following review, Hearon offers a positive assessment of Wonder Boys.
At the start of Michael Chabon's second novel, Wonder Boys, Grady Tripp, a fat, 40ish, 6-foot-3 academic in small...
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In the following interview, See discusses Chabon's life, publishing history, and the origins of Wonder Boys.
Michael Chabon, once pegged as a wonder boy for his first novel, The Mysteries of...
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Even for someone as painfully—ridiculously—attractive as author Taylor Antrim, the process of picture-taking can still be painful. Posing for an Observer photographer last week, leaning...
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Ladies and gentlemen, your Arkansas Tech ... Copperheads?Concerned over having different team names and mascots for men's and women's sports, Arkansas Tech is considering doing away with the nickna...
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Michael Douglas won an Academy Award as a ruthless man with a nose for stock-market gold in "Wall Street." Now he's a lovable kook sniffing after mythical Spanish treasure in "King of California," ...
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Al Gore will host the opening night gala of the Tribeca Film Festival, which will begin with a series of short films on global warming.The festival, which will run from April 25 through May 5, is t...
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Al Gore will host the opening night gala of the Tribeca Film Festival, which will begin with a series of short films on global warming.The festival, which will run from April 25 through May 5, is t...
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Question 1 of 10:The Douglases might be a Tinseltown dynasty now, but
Michael
's grandparents were penniless immigrants from...?
Russia
Italy
Argentina
Mexico
Question 2 of 10:While s...
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“It’d be like calling Groucho Marx anti-mustache,†the best-selling author Michael Chabon said of recent criticism in the New York Post that he an...
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Lucky You Running time 124 minutes Directed by Curtis Hanson Written by Eric Roth Starring Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana
Curtis Hanson’s Lucky You, from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Mr. Hanson,...
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It was about nine years ago that Mase shimmied his shiny suit on to the hip hop scene, rapping a limited yet infectious few bars on 112’s “Only You.” With his cute smile, his uni...
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Editor's Note: Steve Chapman is on vacation. The following column was originally published in October 2005.Amid all his current troubles, President Bush probably has not spent much time contemplati...
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Critical Review by Bharat Tandon
Wonder Boy '07
