Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.