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Beginning with Valley Of The Dolls in 1966 (and followed by Once Is Not Enough and The Love Machine), Jacqueline Susann...

Writer Don DeLillo has spent a good deal of his career exploring the apocalypse of the mundane. His protagonists exist in a kind of cultural hell,...

Woody Allen's dimming view of humanity hasn't done much for his recent films, but it did allow him to create an unforgettable protagonist in...

An avant-gardist who squeezes an eerie amount of feeling from tight formal constraints, David Markson writes novels that play like withdrawals...

Maurice Vellekoop's drawing style may look like a dead-on imitation of '50s and '60s-style New Yorker illustrations, but there's more to it...

The career of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer spans just 20 years, during which he produced fewer than 40 known paintings. Born in the...

When Vernon God Little, the debut novel of pseudonymous author DBC Pierre, won England's prestigious Booker Prize in October, committee...

A superficial women discovers depth the hard way in a jaundiced look at ’80s highlife.

While slowly gaining ascendancy as the producers of the most useful guide to movies on tape, the people who bring you the annual VideoHound's...

Tom Robbins' latest intellectual/hyper-sexual tall tale starts off as a fairy tale about a farmer's daughter and Tanuki, a Japanese spirit-god...