Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. He has two. The first is structural. While the narrative of Infinite Ascent proceeds more or less chronologically ...

"The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Images of people, teenagers my own age, ...

Loosely based on the novel written by a then 21-year old Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero follows a bunch of spoiled Beverly Hills brats as they backstab, rat-fuck, and coke-whore the shit out of ...

I was 18 in the late summer of 1986 when I bought a paperback copy of "Less Than Zero," the debut novel by Bret Easton Ellis. I hadn't heard of the book or the Elvis Costello song from which it nicked ...