Archive

A Critic at Large

Out of Kansas

Revisiting “The Wizard of Oz.”

Film Stories

Where literature and movies meet.

The Movie Lover

My life as a film critic.

March 13, 1994

No. 1512—II

A report from the set of John Huston’s “The Red Badge of Courage.”

May 23, 1952

Slow Fade

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood.

November 8, 2009

A Sense of Place

Stories about the meaning of home.

Homemaking

Moving into the perfect house—and sharing it with the memories of the family who lived there before.

October 16, 1995

A House of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf was Bloomsbury’s genius, but her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, created its shrine.

May 28, 1995

Altered State

Pennsylvania, blackness, and the art of being foreign.

June 23, 2008

The Ghost of the Glass House

Pierre Chareau’s modernist Glass House, in nineteen-thirties Paris—and the dreams that still haunt it.

May 1, 1994
Picks from the Archive

Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

Silent Spring—II

Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.

Silent Spring—III

Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.

Cartoons from the Archive