One of the most painful truths in American publishing is that genre fiction is better than literary fiction. There are…
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David Kepesh is a breast man. When author Philip Roth first introduced us to him in the 1973 novella The…
Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir analyzes how film noir became a genre and, unlike…
Bliss Broyard’s collection of short stories, My Father, Dancing, is so splendidly nuanced that one is tempted to overstate the…
David S. Ware is one of the most powerful saxophonists currently working. His technique goes far beyond the sometimes-contrived overblowing…
Wonderful Town was the second of Leonard Bernstein’s trio of ‘New York’ musicals begun in 1944 with On The Town…
Jean Douchet’s lavishly illustrated coffee-table book, French New Wave, is an eye-popping tribute to the movement that gained worldwide prominence…
Last Things is an ambitious novel that touches on big themes – the poetry of science and physics; our millennial…
An opening blast of brass for "Million Dollar Secret" lets you know instantly that swing rules with the Johnny Nocturne…
First things first: this album’s title, The Big Black, has absolutely nothing to do with Steve Albini’s noise- and rage-fueled…
Editors note: The Winter, 1997 issue of Scenario magazine contains the complete screenplay of The Sweet Hereafter, a lengthy interview…
An unjustly neglected figure in American political history, Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) is usually remembered—if at all—in vague terms, as…
Sharon O’Connor’s Bistro is an ambitious and engaging cookbook that covers all the bases with enthusiasm, charm and an acknowledged…
The Color Red is a young, up-and-coming rock band whose songs are melodic enough for easy listener access (that is,…