Gregg LaGambina's posts

Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem’s big book, a Buddenbrooks transported from Lübeck, Germany, to Queens, New…

Everyone’s done it: looked across a room, noticed a particular couple, imagined their lives, and created a fiction…

Victories in art are difficult to call, but in the wake of the break-up of Oasis three years ago, time has been…

The actor: Ludivine Sagnier’s star turn in Francois Ozon’s Swimming Pool was full of sunlit and aqua-blue poolside…

One of the great joys of anticipating a new movie directed by Gus Van Sant is guessing what sort of film he’ll make…

If you came of age in the United States in the late ’70s and had even a hint of an interest in the universe, you…

April is National Poetry Month, but for New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr, the literary art with…

In summer 2009, Rolling Stone published an article titled “The Great American Bubble Machine” by contributing editor …

Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward is best known (alongside colleague Carl Bernstein) for reporting on…

Author Sam Harris might not be as famous as his contemporaries Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens (sometimes…

In the introduction to his 2002 essay collection, How To Be Alone, Jonathan Franzen writes about how his novel The…

If there truly is such a thing as a writer’s writer, then David Means is a short-story writer’s writer. His previous…

Grief is common, which might be the saddest thing about it. In Vendela Vida’s third novel, The Lovers, a widow named…

To borrow briefly from the argot directed at bad bands: Novels about rock ’n’ roll almost always suck. Writing…

Christopher Hitchens’ last book, God Is Not Great, has sold nearly half a million copies worldwide, arguably mostly…

Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow isn’t the type of dirty book designed to titillate American readers. It’s a…

Has any nation in history shamed itself so comically as the United States did when it tried to quit drinking?…

In her first novel, following the well-regarded 2003 story collection How To Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer…

Graham Robb’s Parisians: An Adventure History Of Paris pays tribute to Robb’s favorite metropolis with a kind of…

These days, print-lovers are often decried as fetishists. The implication being, if you still fancy reading a real…