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Philip Roth is trying to tell us something in his second artistic wind, a trilogy that binds the American dream to our recent national nightmares.

Rockefeller Center reopens two restaurants, Sea Grill and Rock Center Café, but their ambitious menus are forced to compete with the show outside.

Harold Bloom's windy boasting about the books he's read blows a chance to teach the magic of literature, but Geoffrey O'Brien gets the job done.

Having exorcised the demons of her creepy incestuous affair in a best-selling memoir, Kathryn Harrison returns to fiction to explore a creepy sexual fetish, foot-binding.

The Polish heroine of Susan Sontag's compelling new novel dreams of losing her European identity. But rebirth isn't as easy as crossing the ocean.

Malcolm Gladwell uses a medical metaphor to explain modern culture. And his optimism recalls that of a medical forebear: Dr. Pangloss.

E. L. Doctorow's newest depicts a New York on its way to a spiritual awakening. But as a novel, it doesn't quite get out of bed.

We should have guessed that Donald Trump (albeit completely inadvertently) is one of America's greatest political satirists.