Hunter S. Thompson’s book is a comic metaphor for a society getting what it deserves.

On the French New Wave

A review of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”

Is the gun-ridden USA a violent nation?

Stanley Kauffman's original review of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

A review of Tom Wolfe's "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"

On Saul Bellow's sixth—and most remarkable—novel, 'Herzog'

There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."

A review of William S. Burroughs's 1962 cult novel "Naked Lunch"

An obituary for the beloved First Lady

Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Night.’

A Review of "The Hustler" and "Paris Blues"