The Ghost ReturnsBack in January, I was interviewed by a French director for a documentary on the Fonda family. Word came recently that Les Fonda – Une...
This character called "Bob Dylan"Greil Marcus's newest, and probably last, book about Dylan is his best in many years. This is why I thought so.
CrossfireAt Critics at Large: my review of Michelle Dean's Sharp, concerning ten woman writers "who made an art of having an opinion."
Cultural defoliationMy review of the controversial Jann Wenner biography, concerning “the baby-boomer visionary whose singular will to power, rakish...
The mist of other songsToday at Critics at Large, my review of Nicholas Jennings's Lightfoot, concerning the balladeer who maintained just the right emotional...
Wicked and bristling with dotsMy review of David Thomson’s Television: A Biography, concerning the medium described by Norman Mailer as “a small and modest malignancy,...
The mystery of geniusMy review of Mary V. Dearborn's Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, concerning perhaps the greatest American writer of the 20th century.
