Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in… — Anthony Lane Copy Share
We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process. — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
“There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
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