Gregg LaGambina's posts

Once upon a time, there were lions of literature who drank, threw fists, and stabbed their wives. Flashbulbs lit up…

There’s a great novella hiding inside Ian McEwan’s 11th novel, Solar. Delivered in three acts—demarcated by the…

If you put your characters in kitchens with whiskey and make them argue, you’re going to be compared to Raymond…

Readers have met kids like this in books before: barefoot and drifter-free due to family circumstance, becoming…

Smithsonian Books is being a bit misleading in presenting The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked A Technological…

Don DeLillo is 73 years old. Richard Elster, the philosophical war consultant at the center of DeLillo’s 15th novel, …

When Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion in 2006, he was at the forefront of a movement some have…

University Of Chicago professor Steven D. Levitt is probably the only economist who can also lay claim to being a…

With his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (2005), Jonathan Safran…

In Dan Chaon’s second novel, Await Your Reply, a severed hand in an icebox proves as much a harbinger of horror as…

No one really wants to hear about a silver lining when they’re in the midst of misery. Such cold comfort usually…

Being funny must be a lonely business, because the world tends to have a hard time taking funny people seriously.…

Certain cinephiles got their first glimpse of Eric Bana nearly 10 years ago as Mark Read, the tattooed, potbellied…

These days, loving your car might as well fall under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Everyone’s proud…

There are endless stories of money, guns, and the people in pursuit of both. The American crime novel is like a…

In the waning days of his life, battling terminal cancer, John Cheever wrote in his diary, “For the first time in…

In The End Of America: Letter Of Warning To A Young Patriot, author and activist Naomi Wolf outlines the 10 steps…

Back in 1972, sitting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono on The Mike Douglas Show, Ralph Nader was asked if he'd ever…

In Paul Auster's latest novel, A Man In The Dark, retired book critic August Brill recovers from a leg injury while…

In her current best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism, journalist Naomi Klein takes…