Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh, abridged

Absurdistan

Duck Soup meets ethnic cleansing on the Caspian.

Stateless in Seattle

Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest's premier man of letters. He's more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant's fresh eyes he's able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.

Separate Lies

Opens Fri., Oct. 14, at Harvard Exit.

The Martin Scorsese Film Collection

MGM Home Entertainment, $49.96

This Week's Reads

Alan Hollinghurst, David Rees, and Thomas Frank

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi

Also: Bright Young Things, The Brown Bunny, Criminal, Evergreen, Love Me If You Dare, Red Lights, Uncovered: The War on Iraq, and Warriors of Heaven and Earth.

The Limey

Why is Anthony Lane America's most-resented film critic?

All we can do

Why is Anthony Lane America's most-resented film critic?