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Positively Phil

Roth goes back to college
We all know Philip Roth’s preoccupations.
By RICHARD BECK | September 16, 2008

One sings, one doesn’t

The BFF has little to celebrate; the HFA has ‘Edward Yang’
This year, at least one element in “Boston Film Festival” is no longer true.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 10, 2008

Winners and sinners

Barth, Bolaño, Roth, Morrison, and more
Ah, fall, when Nobel Prize winners are announced — and, now, when past winners turn up with more good reading.
By BARBARA HOFFERT | September 11, 2008

Elegy

Sex and power dominate in this Roth adaptation
Cruz, who bares all in her finest performance since her days as Pedro Almodóvar’s muse.
By TOM MEEK | August 20, 2008

Smart work from the Brown/Trinity Rep Playwrights Repertory Theatre
For the fourth consecutive summer, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre has been showcasing new work by emerging playwrights.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 30, 2008

The yenta monologues

Judy Gold’s Jewish-mother complex
What do you call a Conservative Jewish lesbian mother of two boys? Very funny, in the case of Judy Gold.
By ED SIEGEL | December 26, 2007

American dreamer

Ha Jin retraces his journey
It’s difficult to think of an American writer with a story more inspiring than Ha Jin’s.
By JOHN FREEMAN | October 15, 2007

History tour

Zeitgeist’s compelling Kentucky Cycle; Double Edge’s Republic of Dreams
Whitewash has floated like a soap scum on the bloodbath of America’s past as told in the history books.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 09, 2007

War, peace, and Robert Pinsky

The season's fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
Every few years, a fall publishing season emerges that should remind us that Boston could be the literary epicenter of America.
By JOHN FREEMAN | September 12, 2007

War and peace

Cowboy Junkies expand their reach
More often than not, when an artist gets airplay covering a decades-old song, it’s out of desperation — the sign of a career on its way down.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | May 08, 2007

Great sex

How to write it
Call me a literary perv.
By IAN SANDS | February 19, 2007

Trump of judgment

The Apprentice , I’m from Rolling Stone , and Beauty and the Geek
“Some people cast shadows,” wrote Donald Trump in a 2005 letter to the New York Times Book Review , “and other people choose to live in those shadows. To each his own.”
By JAMES PARKER | January 11, 2007

The Paris Review Interview, Vol. 1 introduction by Philip Gourevitch

Picador, 524 pages, $16

By JON GARELICK | December 04, 2006

Lions and lambs

Pynchon isn’t all you’ll be reading this fall
The season is notable for the return to bookstores of canonical names like Atwood, Ginsberg, Kinnell, le Carré, Munro, Pynchon, and Vidal plus a fair share of younger lions like Eggers, Julavits, and Muldoon.
By JOHN FREEMAN | September 13, 2006

Looking for a love

An imagined guide to hookups and taped-together missed conversations
Your eyes met across the (bar/theater/bath house).
By JESSICA GROSE | August 30, 2006

Falwell U

The Moral Majority's higher education
This article originally appeared in the August 4, 1981 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By JERE REAL | August 03, 2006

Brooklyn and the bottle

Donald Margulies from SpeakEasy, Alcoholics Anonymous from New Rep
Donald Margulies’s Brooklyn Boy , which is receiving a creditable Boston premiere production from SpeakEasy Stage Company chronicles the identity crisis of Eric Weiss (Victor Warren), a Jewish writer from Sheepshead Bay now rounding middle age.
By STEVE VINEBERG | June 19, 2006

Something to talk about

The New York Times ranks recent fiction
Is it possible to rate the “single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years?”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 07, 2006

Everybody hurts

In short stories about messed-up teenage sex, alcholic parents, and other rebellions of the flesh, author Rachel Sherman rubs fiction readers the right way
"I don't usually find myself thinking anything's too fucked up," says Sherman. "I write what I want to."
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | May 31, 2006

Sweet slob

Gary Shteyngart’s satirical mash-up
Absurdistan , an amplified Slavomerican mash-up of a novel, begs for a hyperbolic descriptive sentence to express its catch-all style.
By DANA KLETTER | May 17, 2006

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