Film reviews of "Jaws," "Rollerhall," and "The Drowning Pool"

The question of the relationship between high culture and popular culture, which is common in contemporary discussions of the humanities, is sometimes real but as often rhetorical.

The higher ground of Alice Walker.

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

Dissecting Harold Bloom’s theory of originality

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"