James Fenimore Cooper

Swashbuckling good films from '30s, '40s: Kenneth Turan's DVD pick

2012-04-26 16:38:19

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Culture Clash publishes 'Oh, Wild West!' trilogy

2011-08-02 16:33:16

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Book Review: 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris'

2011-05-29 00:00:00

The Greater Journey Americans in Paris David McCullough Simon & Schuster: 560 pp., $37.50 For more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. He garnered...

Book review: 'Satori' by Don Winslow

2011-04-27 00:00:00

Set during the Korean War and the onset of the Cold War, Don Winslow's "Satori," an entertaining, authorized prequel to the bestselling 1979 thriller "Shibumi" by Rodney William Whitaker (who wrote under the pen name Trevanian), is choked with every...

From the Vaults: 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1920)

2010-03-12 16:33:03

East, for Eden: Lake George in New York's Adirondacks

2007-09-02 00:00:00

Bolton Landing, N.Y. The Adirondacks, land of long lakes and last Mohicans, do their big business in the summer, when upstate New York gets its meager annual allotment of warm weather. The forest-fringed waterways and low mountains leap to life as...

High-minded lowdown

2008-05-04 00:00:00

In the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...

Book of beasts

2008-04-27 00:00:00

By Nick Owchar Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in "The Monsters of Templeton" (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N....

Rubicon rocks (minus the rattles)

2007-06-13 00:00:00

With the 2007 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, Natty Bumppo has traded his buckskins for some designer jeans. Yes, Natty Bumppo, hero of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," the great woody prose of which has prompted many an undergraduate to...

The Loner

2002-12-15 00:00:00

The great novelists, Larry McMurtry believes, write their masterpieces in the prime of life. And at 66, he figures he's past his prime. The powers that inspired "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment" are in decline. By his own reckoning, the...

Best Historical Novel Duos

2012-12-14 16:27:07

Awful Sandler flick provokes four-star effort from indignant critics

2012-06-19 16:32:17

Day-Lewis returned to his sex symbol status in Michael Mann's popular 1992 adaptation of the old James Fenimore Cooper tale. Buffed to the max -- he added 20 pounds of muscle to his lean frame with an austere training regime -- Day-Lewis burns up the screen as the brave and romantic Hawkeye.

2007-11-27 12:08:20