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Kevin Canfield

Kevin Canfield has written about arts and culture for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bookforum and many other publications.

Jonathan Ladd

Why everyone hates the media

Kevin Canfield

How do you say “balls of gold” in French?

Kevin Canfield

Can Harper Perennial reinvent publishing?

Kevin Canfield
U.S. Republican presidential candidates, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Mario Anzuoni / Reuters)

The Republican war on science is un-American

Kevin Canfield
Bob Dylan in 1984 (Wikipedia)

Why Bob Dylan won’t win the Nobel Prize

Kevin Canfield
Ernest Hemingway, cradling a shotgun.

“Can we ever really know Ernest Hemingway?”

Kevin Canfield

The worst fiction about 9/11

Kevin Canfield

Don’t just buy the record — help make it

Kevin Canfield
John Cheever, Joseph Heller and Richard Yates

How to bring an author back from the dead

Kevin Canfield

This year’s model

Kevin Canfield