50 Best Guy Movies of All Time
(originally appeared in Men’s Journal, November 2003) (this version is a draft version; the final was not available online) The 50 Best Guy Movies of All Time By David Chute and Mark Horowitz Culturally, guys often get the short end of
50 Best Guy Movies of All Time
(originally appeared in Men’s Journal, November 2003) (this version is a draft version; the final was not available online) The 50 Best Guy Movies of All Time By David Chute and Mark Horowitz Culturally, guys often get the short end of
BOOK REVIEW: “Movie Love” by Pauline Kael
(This review appeared in the Washington Post’s Book World, January 26, 1992) The Pearls of Pauline MOVIE LOVE Complete Reviews 1988-1991 By Pauline Kael Dutton/Abrahams. 348 pp. $24.95; paperback $12.95 LAST MARCH the New Yorker ran this brief announcement: “We
BOOK REVIEW: “Movie Love” by Pauline Kael
(This review appeared in the Washington Post’s Book World, January 26, 1992) The Pearls of Pauline MOVIE LOVE Complete Reviews 1988-1991 By Pauline Kael Dutton/Abrahams. 348 pp. $24.95; paperback $12.95 LAST MARCH the New Yorker ran this brief announcement: “We
Patrick O’Brian’s Ship Comes In
(this profile appeared in the New York Times Magazine, May 16, 1993) Patrick O’Brian’s Ship Comes In By MARK HOROWITZ tarling Lawrence, an editor at W. W. Norton in New York, first heard about the Irish novelist Patrick O’Brian in
Patrick O’Brian’s Ship Comes In
(this profile appeared in the New York Times Magazine, May 16, 1993) Patrick O’Brian’s Ship Comes In By MARK HOROWITZ tarling Lawrence, an editor at W. W. Norton in New York, first heard about the Irish novelist Patrick O’Brian in
BOOK REVIEW: “Fatherland” by Robert Harris
(This review appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, July 5, 1992) It’s a Wonderful Reich FATHERLAND By Robert Harris (Random House: $21; 338 pp.) One of my favorite books growing up was a dog-eared paperback novel called,
BOOK REVIEW: “Fatherland” by Robert Harris
(This review appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, July 5, 1992) It’s a Wonderful Reich FATHERLAND By Robert Harris (Random House: $21; 338 pp.) One of my favorite books growing up was a dog-eared paperback novel called,
BOOK REVIEW: The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Mil
(this review appeared in Heterodoxy, February 1993) “The Passion of Michel Foucault” by James Miller (Simon and Schuster, $27.50) Reviewed by Mark Horowitz Michel Foucault is the Nosferatu of American academia. You can’t kill him. Even today, nearly a decade
BOOK REVIEW: The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Mil
(this review appeared in Heterodoxy, February 1993) “The Passion of Michel Foucault” by James Miller (Simon and Schuster, $27.50) Reviewed by Mark Horowitz Michel Foucault is the Nosferatu of American academia. You can’t kill him. Even today, nearly a decade
BOOK REVIEW: “Balzac: A Biography” by Graham Robb
(this review appeared in the Los Angeles Times, September 11, 1994) Get This Man an Armani Suit A prolific chronicler of 19th Century Paris describes a city uncannily like our own. BALZAC: A Biography, By Graham Robb (W.W. Norton: $35;
BOOK REVIEW: “Balzac: A Biography” by Graham Robb
(this review appeared in the Los Angeles Times, September 11, 1994) Get This Man an Armani Suit A prolific chronicler of 19th Century Paris describes a city uncannily like our own. BALZAC: A Biography, By Graham Robb (W.W. Norton: $35;
BOOK REVIEW: “Playland” by John Gregory Dunne
(This review appeared in the Washington Post’s Book World, July 31, 1994) High Rollers and Hitmen PLAYLAND By John Gregory Dunne Random House. 494 pp. $25 CORRUPTION in all its forms, political, spiritual and physical, is John Gregory Dunne’s favorite
BOOK REVIEW: “Playland” by John Gregory Dunne
(This review appeared in the Washington Post’s Book World, July 31, 1994) High Rollers and Hitmen PLAYLAND By John Gregory Dunne Random House. 494 pp. $25 CORRUPTION in all its forms, political, spiritual and physical, is John Gregory Dunne’s favorite
BOOK REVIEW: “Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame” by VIncent Curcio
Sic Transit Gloria SUICIDE BLONDE: The Life of Gloria Grahame by Vincent Curcio (William Morrow: $19.95; 319 pp., illustrated; 0-688-06718-2) All movie-star biographies begin as Cinderella stories. Happy endings, on the other hand, are harder to come by. Gloria Grahame’s
BOOK REVIEW: “Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame” by VIncent Curcio
Sic Transit Gloria SUICIDE BLONDE: The Life of Gloria Grahame by Vincent Curcio (William Morrow: $19.95; 319 pp., illustrated; 0-688-06718-2) All movie-star biographies begin as Cinderella stories. Happy endings, on the other hand, are harder to come by. Gloria Grahame’s
BOOK REVIEW: “The Aubrey/Maturin Novels” by Patrick O’Brian
(this review appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, September 8, 1991) Down to the Sea in Ships Two of my favorite friends are fictitious characters; they live in more than a dozen volumes always near at hand. Their
BOOK REVIEW: “The Aubrey/Maturin Novels” by Patrick O’Brian
(this review appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, September 8, 1991) Down to the Sea in Ships Two of my favorite friends are fictitious characters; they live in more than a dozen volumes always near at hand. Their
Fault Lines: Screenwriter Robert Towne
SOURCE: “Fault Lines,” in Film Comment, Vol. 26, No. 6, November-December, 1990, pp. 52-5, 57-8. In the following essay, Horowitz analyzes Towne’s career through The Two Jakes and reassesses the significance of Chinatown as “the lens through which all of
Fault Lines: Screenwriter Robert Towne
SOURCE: “Fault Lines,” in Film Comment, Vol. 26, No. 6, November-December, 1990, pp. 52-5, 57-8. In the following essay, Horowitz analyzes Towne’s career through The Two Jakes and reassesses the significance of Chinatown as “the lens through which all of
Mark Horowitz 