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June 9, 2024: By “Here” I mean here in New England, a good chunk of which is Maine, a significant …
June 9, 2024: By “Here” I mean here in New England, a good chunk of which is Maine, a significant …
May 17, 2024: Here’s my Shelf Awareness interview with Kathleen Hanna to coincide with the release of her swell new …
May 12, 2024: Today, on what some are calling Mother’s Day, Salon is kindly running a piece I wrote (original …
May 12, 2024: With its cast of six animated thirtysomethings in perfect male-female balance, Darby Kane’s thriller–horror novel crossbreed The Engagement …
April 7, 2024: Liv Andersson’s new thriller, Leave the Lights On, is nothing like Fatal Attraction, as I say in my review, out today …
December 31, 2023: I’m back (not that you were waiting) with another list of books on Old Hollywood. Presented alphabetically …
December 6, 2023: In 1953’s Small Town Girl, a character played by Hungarian-born S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall (1883-1955) frets about …
August 17, 2023: Vogue.com kindly just posted a shortened version of a piece I wrote in defense of the Steves …
April 28, 2023: Don’t be scared. Claire Dederer has a really aces new book out called Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma …
March 30, 2023: Salon has just posted (see here) my essay “Look at him: Why can’t straight guys acknowledge male …