Naomi Wolf Makes Much Ado About Nuzzling At Yale
Naomi Wolf was on the phone on Feb. 24 speaking about her cover story in this week's New York , in which she accuses literary scholar Harold Bloom of having placed his "heavy, boneless hand" on her...
View ArticleEight Day Week
Wednesday 17th St. Patrick's Day! Well, both of us gals have pretty pasty complexions (though one of us is just about to jet off for spring break- ¡olé! ), so we're not too psyched about this one day...
View ArticleWe Miss Mike Kelly: The Good Hard to Find, Even Harder to Lose
I'm still bitter about Michael Kelly's death. This is something I realized when I went to an event in his memory on March 17, nearly a year after he was killed in a Humvee while covering the war in...
View ArticleBush-Haters Speak Loudly, And in Unlikely Venues
How much do Bush-haters hate George W. Bush? Those who hated Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan swung the hammer pretty hard, but you probably have to remember Johnson and Nixon haters to recall so many...
View ArticleUp a Tree With Naomi Wolf-Meet Dad, the Marvelous Mentor
The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom From My Father on How to Live, Love, and See, by Naomi Wolf. Simon and Schuster, 278 pages, $24. Naomi Wolf is one lucky lass. Oh, she's had her share of troubles-like...
View ArticleA Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95. The first reaction is visceral, and should be recorded here before the critical faculty interposes to hedge and qualify:...
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A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95. The first reaction is visceral, and should be recorded here before the critical faculty interposes to hedge and qualify:...
View ArticleKinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on ‘Real Life’
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory, or buried deep in the “text”—that sunless realm where books are...
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2003 Power Punk: John Hodgman
John Hodgman was drinking a smoothie inside the cavernous Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Soon the 32-year-old would switch to rye whiskey. It was 7:30 p.m., and the place was filling up...
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McQueen, Bernard-Henri and the Nazis: Life of Daphne Guinness Gets New Yorker...
Ms. Guinness. Did you wake up today with Fashion Week withdrawal? Craving a runway in New York, and unable to hop a flight to London? Remnick & Co. have you covered: The New Yorker's style issue...
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On the Page: Shakespeare Edition
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors Edited by Susannah Carson Vintage, 528 pp., $16 It should come as no surprise that the best essays in Living With Shakespeare are by...
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