Rent it now: The movie of Paula Fox’s ‘Desperate Characters’
Jonathan Franzen has been getting extraordinary advance press for his novel “Freedom” — set to be published Aug. 31. A critic as well as a novelist, Franzen did one of the great literary good deeds of...
View ArticleHow Agatha Christie and Philip Roth can save your sanity
Just published today, Nina Sankovitch’s “Tolstoy and the Purple Chair” (Harper) is a gripping and inspiring book about the year the author spent reading a book-a-day while trying to recover from the...
View Article‘Joel Delaney’: 1970s NYC in all its gritty glory
Shirley MacLaine has always made fun of the B-level British producer Lew Grade, who convinced the actress to do a disastrous, short-lived TV series in the late 1960s (“there’s high grade and Lew...
View Article‘YOU’: what is this thing called love?
Lifetime began shaking up its image as “television for women” with the darkly comic series “Unreal,” but it still seems likely that regular viewers of the soap opera-heavy cable channel might not be...
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