Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel...
...stories in the cover package were written by "the two Richards" of TIME's cinematic realm. In New York City senior writer Richard Corliss wove together the main story, while Los Angeles-based critic Richard Schickel commented on what all this has to do with the Oscars, and vice versa...
...need to be plugged in to generate electricity, saysTIME music critic Christopher John Farley, and the new installments ofMTV's almost-all-acoustic showcaseprove it. The picks of the new crop: Courtney Love's band Hole, the Cranberries and Live. All air in April. "They're all worth watching," says Farley. "The show's just been getting better and better. It's really established itself as a proving ground for a good group of rockers...
...disturbed daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The villain is Dolores' husband, a drunken wife beater (David Strathairn) who deserves the bad end she arranges for him in a tale complicated by its vagueness. "King boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues," says TIME critic Richard Schickel. "This is his fantasia on feminist themes...
...music making, theater, literature. How and why New York attained its now partly-lost eminence is the grand theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis."MONEY