A conversation with Toni Morrison.

Sidney Poitier went beyond dotted-i professionalism, dredging up the messy and intimate emotions the "pros" feared to confront.

Raymond Chandler's detective stories deserve the name of art

A rereading of Gabriel García Márquez's famous book.

The higher ground of Alice Walker.

On a new edition of Betty Friedan's feminist classic.

Hunter S. Thompson’s book is in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac, but it lacks Kerouac’s bleeding feelings.

A review of Philip Roth's fifth novel and follow up to "Portnoy's Complaint"