‘I’d rather look at art than anything else’
A New York art critic who stuck to what she loved — and stuck to her guns.
Criticism
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a name ‘flowing and full of meaning’
In the creator of 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin,' a critic and a biographer both discover a 19th century author to admire.
Potshots, scatter-shots, cheap shots
One error in judgment didn’t slow Joe Morgenstern’s march through decades of lively criticism.
Michiko Kakutani on Philip Roth’s 'American Pastoral'
The Times critic praises Roth’s ambition and its fulfillment in the novel that at last won him the Pulitzer Prize. Coincidentally, she won one, too.
All Bork and no bite
TV critic Tom Shales considered an early venture into reality TV: the hearings that made Bork a verb.
‘He didn’t like it, but it sounds interesting’
Pulitzer-winning critic Richard Eder takes on two-time Pulitzer winner in Fiction John Updike — concluding, 'the darkness is a defect' in 'Roger's Version.'
An insider who found power as an outsider
Frustrated by reviews that don’t give you a sense of whether you’d like the book? Give Jonathan Yardley a try.
When the birthday boy skips the party, what’s a writer to do?
Jascha Heifetz has left the building. Long live Jascha Heifetz.
Pulitzer-themed Mayborn Literary Conference features Prize-winning journalists, authors and photographers
Margo Jefferson, Gilbert King, Carol Guzy and Marty Baron among speakers at three-day celebration
The enduring glory of a potato taco
Hungry in Los Angeles? Look no further than this Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold’s work.
