A.O. Scott

A. O. Scott is a film critic at The New York Times and the former Sunday book critic for Newsday. His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Slate, and many other publications.

From the Review

September 21, 2000: A Finished Woman

Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy by Frances Kiernan

February 10, 2000: The Panic of Influence

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

August 12, 1999: Looking for Raymond Carver

All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver

A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver

No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings by Raymond Carver

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver. tenth-anniversary edition

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver

December 17, 1998: A Matter of Life and Death

Gain by Richard Powers

December 3, 1998: Admiration Society (letter)

September 24, 1998: The Sun Also Sets

Cities of the Plain, Vol. 3, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

From New York Review Books

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays "Fierce, provocative, and lovely, a collection of small masterpieces, by one of the twentieth century's most dazzling minds." —Katie Roiphe