Greg Cwik

Richard Ford’s ‘Canada’ Is His Most Impermanent Work Yet

This Is Baby-Makin’ Music, but Only Bedtime Reading: ‘98% Funky Stuff’

David Shields’ ‘How Literature Saved My Life’ Substitutes Flaccidity for Fervor

‘Conversations with Greil Marcus’ Are Not Conversations About Greil Marcus

‘Reel Terror’ Is Quite the Hatchet Job

Caution: Now Entering a Headphone Zone – The Year in Atmospheric Music

In ‘Magnificence’, the Protagonist Continually Invites Death into Her Life

James Wood’s Criticism Is Like Tectonic Plates Under Pressure, Forming Mountain Ridges

‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’ May Drive You Insane

The Critic As Artful Gadfly: Pauline Kael

The Tragedy of the Family Game in ‘The Road to Perdition’

Michael Chabon Grows Up with ‘Telegraph Avenue’

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