Phillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book yet--the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre--Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in the form of interconnected personal essays. One of America's foremost essayists, who helped focus attention on[...]

"Notes on Sontag" is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the 'foremost interpreters of...our recent contemporary moment.' Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, [...]

In this stunning collection of personal essays chosen as one of "The New Yorke"r's "Books to Watch Out For," distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the [...]

An anthology of unparalleled scope, "American Movie Critics" charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art, ?Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Richard Schickel, Pauline Kael, Andr[...]

Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive subversive and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. The cinematic adaptations of Dicka's fiction have generated so much interest since Blade Runnera's 1982 release that a comprehensive assessment of these films is necess[...]