Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.

Sex, violence, Allah and the American dream

Money, time, and the surrender of American taste

He sold himself as an outsider while he was in many ways the consummate insider.

A dispatch from Pope John Paul II's spectacle-filled visit to Camden Yards in 1995

He couldn't even pour a glass of water. Then, he began to read his poetry...

John Banville reviews Selina Hastings's 'Evelyn Waugh: A Biography.'

The unreal world of Cornel West

A 1995 toy store quest.

A review of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"

November 14, 1994

Film reviews of 'Forrest Gump' and 'Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits'

Democracy and Homosexuality