I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea… — Anthony Lane Brutal 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;… — Anthony Lane Appearance Copy Share Image
We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process. — Anthony Lane Change 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… — Anthony Lane Age 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,… — Anthony Lane Causes 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… — Anthony Lane Beijing 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… — Anthony Lane Books 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… — Anthony Lane Book 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… — Anthony Lane Books 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… — Anthony Lane Barns Copy Share Image
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we… — Anthony Lane Change Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they… — Anthony Lane Cookbook Copy Share Image
