Updated 2/24/2024

Back in January, I was interviewed by a French director for a documentary on the Fonda family. Word came recently that Les Fonda – Une...

Greil Marcus's newest, and probably last, book about Dylan is his best in many years. This is why I thought so.

At Critics at Large: my review of Michelle Dean's Sharp, concerning ten woman writers "who made an art of having an opinion."

My review of the controversial Jann Wenner biography, concerning “the baby-boomer visionary whose singular will to power, rakish...

Today at Critics at Large, my review of Nicholas Jennings's Lightfoot, concerning the balladeer who maintained just the right emotional...

My review of David Thomson’s Television: A Biography, concerning the medium described by Norman Mailer as “a small and modest malignancy,...

My review of Mary V. Dearborn's Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, concerning perhaps the greatest American writer of the 20th century.