Controversial and proudly free of political correctness, his sharp comments are often feared by authors of new publications. Yet for…
Browsing: Stephen O. Murray
Besides publishing his letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (Dear Sammy, 1977), their protégé, Samuel M. Steward (1909-93)…
The title of Paul Russell’s novel The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov is a slight twist on the more famous…
Approximately midway through his charming, aphoristic, and erudite The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (2018), Edmund White writes: “I…
The book (expanded from my Amazon Vine review) For admirers, such as me, of the first two books by Aaron…
I was not the only person to be impressed by Aaron Hamburger’s debut collection of stories, The View from Stalin’s…
“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975) is, at least for me, the most memorable NYC dramas directed by Sidney Lumet. Seeing it…
Tahar ben-Jelloun was born in Fez in 1944, emigrated to France in 1962. He is the author of twenty-come books,…
Like Mary Renault, and Marguerite Yourcenar, Patricia Highsmith, who was born in Fort Worth in 1921 and died in Switzerland…
As co-editor of a history of anthropology series published by the University of Nebraska Press, I read a lot of…
