A Review of Stories by Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

A review of "The Bounty" by Derek Walcott.

Paul Thomas Anderson's second feature moves us into a terrain where the moral scale is unabashedly different from the rest of the world’s.

A review of "Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham"

Bettie Page and the fate of pleasure in America.

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

A review of "Omeros" by Derek Walcott

Getting it all wrong

A review of Stanley Cavell's 'In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism'

A review of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

A review of "Kramer vs. Kramer"

Film reviews of "Jaws 2," "Grease," and "Slave of Love"

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

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

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

Hunter S. Thompson’s book is a comic metaphor for a society getting what it deserves.