Criticism

On the Border by Michel Warchawsky

Michel Warschawski's book On The Border could not have come at a better time for the American reader, because its bold and honest examination of the dangerous schisms that the Palestinian question has opened in Israeli society warns us of the similar schisms that the war on terror is opening in ours.... Review

 

Sontag & Kael, Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman

What drives this remarkable work is the author's relationship to his two subjects. Seligman's feelings for the late Pauline Kael are proudly affectionate... Review

Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad

If you are one of those who can't get enough of Orson Welles ... Review

Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter by Sid Caesar (with Eddy Friedfeld)

New memoir by TV-legend Sid Caesar... Review

Marilyn By Andre De Dienes and Steve Crist

This stupendous creation is as much coffee table as coffee table book... Review

Writing with Hitchcock: A Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes By Steven Derosa

Writing With Hitchcock focuses entirely on Hitchcock's collaboration with the talented John Michael Hayes... Review

My First Movie: Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film By Stephen Lowenstein

To Lowenstein's credit, the 20 directors he chose as his subjects reflect a wide range of backgrounds and sensibilities, from Mira Nair to Bertrand Tavernier, P.J. Hogan to Oliver Stone and Ken Loach to Pedro Almodovar... Review

Fame! Ain't It a Bitch: Confessions of a Reformed Gossip Columnist by A.J. Benza

A.J. Benza's chronicle of his rise from working-class obscurity to nightlife celebrity... Review

Alec Guinness: A Life by Garry O'Connor

If great actors can be defined by anything, it is their lack of definition. It is this lack of a distinct self, of course, that enables them to slip in and out of character... Review

Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Micheal Eric Dyson

Tupac Shakur deeply touched the lives of all who knew him and millions of other who knew him only through his work.... Review

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr, Editor

When Kenneth Tynan died of emphysema in Los Angeles in 1980, the world lost not only the finest drama critic of the age, but one of its greatest wits.... Review

Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot' Edited by Alison Castle, interviews by Dan Auiler

Whoever purchases this book will no doubt be faced with an immediate quandary: Do I read it, eat it or make love to it.... Review

   
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