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"

"The Passion of Anna" is part of the Ingmar Bergman continuum: a self-contained chapter, still a chapter.

Kenneth Burke's review of "Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction" by Denis Donoghue

Sam Peckinpah has acquired a passion for accurate and revealing Americana used dramatically.