Critical mass: four decades of essays, reviews, hand grenades, and hurrahs

ǂt Introduction

ǂt Talking furniture. ǂt O.K. Corral revisited

ǂt Liv and let die: Scenes from a marriage

ǂt Hartman is the best thing about Lear

ǂt Stanley Siegel: Jack Paar in the age of est

ǂt The vindication of Vanessa Redgrave: Playing for time

ǂt The crane-shot that captured Christmas: SCTV

ǂt Potter's reel: The singing detective

ǂt Designing couple: Designing women

ǂt "X" factor: The X-files

ǂt Prime time's graduation

ǂt Comedians. ǂt Who's laughing now?: is stand-up comedy dead on its feet?

ǂt Late night : ǂt What keeps Johnny on top? Insincereity! ; ǂt Johnny, we hardly knew ye ; ǂt The swivel throne ; ǂt Letterman unbound ; ǂt Great Carson's ghost!

ǂt Jerry Lewis: last tuxedo standing

ǂt Christopher Guest: mystery guest

ǂt Mort Sahl: Mort the Knife

ǂt Punk, pop, rock. ǂt Patti x two : ǂt Patti Smith: mustang rising ; ǂt Tarantula meets mustang: Dylan calls on Patti Smith

ǂt The Ramones: chord killers

ǂt A conservative impulse in the new rock underground

ǂt Lou Reed rising

ǂt John Cale refuses to die

ǂt Richard Hell comes in spurts

ǂt Johnny Rotten x two : ǂt Kiss me, you fool: Sex Pistols 77 ; ǂt Rotten and Vicious: Rotten, John Lydon

ǂt The Noise Boys: Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer

ǂt The Bollocks: Please kill me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

ǂt The lives of Albert Goldman

ǂt When they were kings: The Rat Pack

ǂt Movies. ǂt French fries and sympathy: Diner

ǂt Your flick of flicks: My favorite year

ǂt Brian De Palma x three : ǂt The Godfather goes slumming: Scarface ; ǂt Double trouble: Body double ; ǂt De Palma and the women

ǂt Of vice and Mann

ǂt Sam Peckinpah: slay 'em again, Sam

ǂt A fistful of Woodys : ǂt The great white Woody: Broadway Danny Rose ; ǂt Liquid shimmer: Purple Rose of Cairo ; ǂt Upper West Side story: Hannah and her sisters ; ǂt How green was my Woody

ǂt Death and the master: Alfred Hitchcock

ǂt New York noir

ǂt The executioners

ǂt Rock Hudson and Doris Day: lovers come back

ǂt From fear to eternity: The Americanization of Emily

ǂt An unforgettable face: A face in the crowd

ǂt Books, authors, critics. ǂt Knowledge is good?: the intellectual killer elite

ǂt On the ropes: Selected letters, Ernest Hemingway

ǂt Stop me before I write again: A Bloodsmoor romance, Joyce Carol Oates

ǂt Richard Ford: guns and roses

ǂt Three critics : ǂt Manny Farber's termite art ; ǂt The stand-up critic: Mudrick transcribed: classes and talks by Marvin Mudrick ; ǂt Seymour Krim: foreword to What's this cat's story?

ǂt R.I.P.: Edie: an American biography, Jean Stein

ǂt Life among the ninnies: The diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume seven (1966-1974)

ǂt Philip Larkin's enormous yes

ǂt Amis père et fils : ǂt The old devil: Difficulties with girls, Kingsley Amis ; ǂt Kingsley's ransom ; ǂt The Amis papers ; ǂt The yob that failed: Lionel Asbo: state of England, Martin Amis

ǂt Updike x three : ǂt Running on empty: Rabbit is rich ; ǂt Caretaker/Pallbearer: The widows of Eastwick ; ǂt The prince of finesse: Hugging the shore

ǂt It's still Cheever country: Cheever: a life, Blake Bailey

ǂt Ayn Rand: Rand inquisitor

ǂt Kerouac's lonesome road

ǂt Remaking it: New York days, Willie Morris ; ǂt Kafka was the rage, Anatole Broyard

ǂt The Truman show: Truman Capote, George Plimpton

ǂt William Shawn: the love bug

ǂt Norman Mailer: the Norman conquests

ǂt Bow. Wow.: Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan

ǂt I adore your mustache: Selected letters of William Styron