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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).

Currently

  • The Improbable Moralist

    June 21, 2007

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

2005

  • Agee's Gospel

    November 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.

2003

  • New York State of Mind

    November 13, 2003

    Colson Whitehead's new perversely daring book is smooth, dazzling, evocative, but also narrow and monochromatic.

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