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Arnold de Luca/Corbis Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Comeback Artist
The Baroque sculptor’s audience has finally come around to his way of seeing the world.
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Deborah Feingold/Corbis A Critic and a Poet
Pauline Kael showed us how to talk about popular art and fall in love with movies.
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Sylvia Salmi/Bettmann/CORBIS Style Is the Man
Dwight Macdonald shows us that only a great writer can be a great critic.
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Cherokee Productions/NBC/ Universal TV/The Kobal Collection The Rockford Style
Eastwood? McQueen? Why James Garner is the real star of his era.
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Sean McCabe Hollywood: A Love Story
Often spot-on, sometimes creepy, David Thomson’s masterwork is the most influential book ever written about the movies—and the most infuriating.
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Courtesy Everett Collection How Broadway Conquered the World
America’s most energetic art form owes its success to compulsive singability.
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Fatherland
Philip Roth has conjured up an alternative America—but fantasy is the wrong form for a writer uncannily able to find real life fantastic
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No Way, Madame Bovary
A new but not improved translation
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Necessary Inhibitions
