Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is the author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (Anchor) and editor of the anthology American Film Critics: From the Silents Until Now (Library of America).

FictionJune 21, 2007

The Improbable Moralist

Leonard Michaels’s fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.

Phillip Lopate
BiographyNovember 17, 2005

Agee’s Gospel

Two new volumes in the Library of America series present the life and work of James Agee, whose flashes of greatness as an essayist, screenwriter, novelist and Nation film reviewer have secured his place in the American literary canon.

Phillip Lopate
CitiesNovember 13, 2003

New York State of Mind

After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the reading public every

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Phillip Lopate

FictionJune 21, 2007

Leonard Michaels’s fiction captured his evolution from sex-obsessed misogyny to self-identified moralism.

BiographyNovember 17, 2005

Two new volumes in the Library of America series present the life and work of James Agee, whose flashes of greatness as an essayist, screenwriter, novelist and Nation film reviewer have secured his place in the American literary canon.

CitiesNovember 13, 2003

After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the reading public every