Critics on the Classics

A hundred years of great writing, curated for The New Yorker’s centenary.

“Titanic” raises the stakes of the spectacular.

How the drama of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” engages us in history.

A review of “Lolita,” by Vladimir Nabokov.

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J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.”

George Orwell’s “1984” predicts a state of things far worse than any we have ever known.

M-G-M’s Technicolor production “The Wizard of Oz” displays no trace of good taste, imagination, or ingenuity.

A god, talking in his sleep, might have written “Finnegans Wake.”

Our recurrent hero, Winnie-the-Pooh.