Edmund Wilson

The Emotional Spark: What’s That Thing We All Long For?

Through the glass door at the W Hotel Bar in Union Square, I saw him: the screenwriter from L.A.  read more »

The Two Neil Youngs: Demme’s Film Shows A Saccharine Singer

Rural virtue: Neil Young in Jonathan Demme
Bob Vergara
Rural virtue: Neil Young in Jonathan Demme

As you may have noted by now, I like the friction—sometimes comic, sometimes revealing—t  read more »

The Two Neil Youngs: Demme's Film Shows A Saccharine Singer

As you may have noted by now, I like the friction—sometimes comic, sometimes revealing—that resu  read more »

Roger W. Straus Adored A Rascal-And So Did I

Roger Straus' funeral was a dirgelike gathering at Temple Emanu El with solemn talk from the rabbi a  read more »

Weil's Portrait Of James Joyce Teems With Wit

Contemporary American modernist artists have not, for the most part, taken a keen interest in the wo  read more »

Even Educated Fleas Do It: City Brainiacs Flub Marriage

Partisans: Marriage, Politics and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals , by David Laskin.  read more »