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Food

In Print

An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

by Mick Vann July 28, 2006September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

Political controversy aside, this is a mystery that works, one whose turns are neither obvious nor illogical

by Jess Sauer July 14, 2006September 30, 2025

Arts

Anthony Trollope remarked that a satirist did best to write little, “or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.” Well …

by Jess Sauer June 2, 2006September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

Elucidating the fine art of hanging around

by Josh Rosenblatt April 28, 2006September 30, 2025

Screens

In Print

‘Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute’

by Spencer Parsons March 31, 2006September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

‘You do an awfully good impression of yourself,’ opens Bret Easton Ellis’ first book in seven years

by Audra Schroeder August 26, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Summer Reading

This auspicious debut, begun at the Michener Center for Writers, isn’t a mystery yarn or a family gothic, a romance, or a satire of radical environmentalism. It’s all of the above and then some.

by Marrit Ingman May 27, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

There is contemporary fiction about addiction, and then there is Paradise, the fifth novel from A. L. Kennedy, which stands out for its bitter wit, its painful truth-telling, and the narcotic quality of its author’s limber, serpentine prose

by Marrit Ingman March 25, 2005September 30, 2025