John Cheever

Aisle Seat

Skater Boyz N the Hood

Teen rebels rule in Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers

Death Warmed Over Again

A family's crisis feels a bit too familiar in Imaginary Heroes

Energy and Grace

Moving beyond stand-up, an addict plumbs his own depths

Psyched-Out Cinema

Frank Perry's existential melodramas

Chronicles of the Working Class

The book Nickel and Dimed is a first-rate journalistic look at minimum-wage life. The play it inspired is just journalism.

Accounted For

Josh Kornbluth leaves us helpless with laughter and pleasantly lost

The Big Bad Woolf

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Romantic Egotist

After decades of being misunderstood, novelist and gay icon John Rechy is fighting back -- and making Hollywood take notice

All Booked Up

Itzhak Volansky insists he isn't much interested in books, or the bookstore he owns. That disinterest is one reason McDonald's Books has become an enormous, wonderful, disordered phantasmagoria that attracts a wonderfully eccentric clientele. And who real