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Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate’s most recent book is A Mother’s Tale. He is a Professor in the MFA nonfiction writing program at Columbia.
 (January 2019)

Sakura Ando, Miyu Sasaki, and Lily Franky as Nobuyo, Yuri, and Osamu in Shoplifters, 2018

Found Families

Shoplifters

a film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

January 17, 2019 issue

Empire cinema, New York City, 1983

Movie Theaters' Heroic Age

I have spent large chunks of my life in repertory movie theaters. A new study by Ben Davis, Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City: Havens for Revivals, Indies and the Avant-Garde, 1960–1994, with copious photographs, has just been published. I confess I approached it with trepidation, fearing it would get wrong somehow the passion to which I had given so much time and energy, rather like going to a mass political demonstration and coming home to see it distorted in the nightly news.

November 6, 2017

The Umpire of the Quality Lit Game

The Novel: A Survival Skill

by Tim Parks

Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books

by Tim Parks

Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them

by Tim Parks

November 10, 2016 issue

Joyce Carol Oates with her father, Frederic Oates, 1943

In the Kingdom of Joyce Carol Oates

The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Sacrifice

by Joyce Carol Oates

Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense

by Joyce Carol Oates

December 3, 2015 issue

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