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Books: Still Paging Mr. Salinger

Posted: December 31st, 2008, 5:50am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

Revered for “The Catcher in the Rye” and the Glass family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive on his 90th birthday.

Film: Kate! Leo! Gloom! Doom! Can It Work?

Posted: December 13th, 2008, 10:16am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

“Revolutionary Road” is a bleak novel about 1950s suburban malaise. Thanks largely to one star’s enthusiasm, it’s now also a movie.

Are 3 Novels, Revised as One, a New Book?

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By CHARLES MCGRATH

Among the nominees for this year’s National Book Award in fiction is a book that some have complained is not exactly new: Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country.”

A Writer in a Living Novel

Posted: November 4th, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

Carolyn Chute, whose fourth novel, “The School on Heart’s Content Road,” comes out on Friday, splits time at her rural Maine compound between writing and running her “no-wing” militia.

Exhibition Review | 'Yaddo: Making American Culture': Shadows of Yaddo

Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

The artists’ colony Yaddo, which is the subject of an absorbing new exhibition at the New York Public Library, has always had an unreal, Gatsbylike quality.

Exhibition Review | 'Grant and Lee in War and Peace': Two Generals, Still Maneuvering

Posted: October 17th, 2008, 5:05am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

“Grant and Lee” at the New-York Historical Society does not, strictly speaking, weigh the merits of one versus the other, nor is it really a Civil War show.

Books of The Times: Musical Odyssey: Circus Marches as a Boy, Grand, Topical Operas as a Man

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 4:41am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

John Adams’s absorbing new book at times reads like a quest narrative that travels through the whole landscape of 20th-century music.

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Harmonic Convergence: When Julian Met Plácido

Posted: September 17th, 2008, 7:05am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

To commemorate the anniversary of Plácido Domingo’s Metropolitan Opera debut, the Met has commissioned Julian Schnabel to paint his portrait.

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Film: To Be, or to Be Broad, in Service of ‘Hamlet 2’

Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:33am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

Despite appearances in many movies, Steve Coogan, the star of the indie comedy “Hamlet 2,” is scarcely known in the United States.

A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 7:15am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

“Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, is the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.

Hazy Halcyon Days of Pot and Puberty

Posted: June 28th, 2008, 6:53pm GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

With “The Wackness,” Jonathan Levine evokes high school in Manhattan in the early 1990s.

Field Trips to Dark Reaches of the Soul

Posted: June 10th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

With “The Garden of Last Days,” Andre Dubus III explores Florida’s link to terrorism, one seedy bar at a time.

Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 8:12am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

Mr. Fagles was a renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil became unlikely best sellers.