Paul Elie Knits Together the Lives of Four Astounding Writers
Paul Elie's first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, takes its title from a short story by Flannery O'Connor.
In the story a tramp named Mr. Shiftlet marries and soon abandons ...
It's the early 1980's. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dan Mahowny, a Toronto bank manager whose body is as soft and slow as his mind is sharp and quick. Mahowny moves ...
From ghetto to ghetto
In his 1990 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" Dana Gioia mourned the relegation of poetry to an "intellectual ghetto" where poets only write for ...
Anger Management is silly and funny and deserving of such small words. Director Peter Segal serves up a campy, if homophobic, reply to our therapeutic culture and ...
We are a smooth-skinned people.
Between walnut-shell exfoliants, multivitamins, microdermabrasion and "Botox parties," well off Americans aim to erase death line by wrinkled line. We want to look ...
