Scriptorium

Jumpha Lahiri swerves toward the 'cancer' of culture shock.

How do you spell Facebook? Try a-b-u-s-e.

Roth directs fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman from center-front to the wings.

All hail "No Country for Old Men," but with Cormac McCarthy's novel you feel the real heat.

Joyce Carol Oates may say she’s writing about Depression children, but don’t be fooled — again.

Norman Mailer was our Gangsta rapper. We seem sure he left us messages.

Severnigni is an owl-eyed little man wearing granddad’s oversize overcoat.

Luigi Barzini keeps to one tough question: What makes Italians tick?