Uncensored John Simon

Concreteness, compactness, concision--put it any way you like--is something that good writing is based on. Or you may call ...

What is religion really about, and do we truly need it? An atheist wonders and asks these fundamental questions. Obviou...

I admire champions of lost causes: the beautiful losers, to borrow the title of an early Leonard Cohen opus, by far his bes...

Will we ever be able to communicate with our friends—hold that—our kinfolk, the animals? It seems highly unlikely, but that...

What could be more pointless at this late date than protesting against abstract art? As soon complain about the ballpoint f...

There are in my view both real sequels and quasi sequels. A real sequel is when the author of a book, say, Margaret ...

If we are going to deal with epigrams, we must first distinguish between wit and humor. Humor makes you laugh, as with ever...