John Irving

  • "The Fourth Hand"

    In John Irving's latest novel, a TV reporter loses his left hand to a lion while reporting live from India.
    Read by Jason Culp October 4, 2001

  • "The Fourth Hand" by John Irving

    In the novelist's latest, a studly newscaster loses a limb but gains a deeper understanding of sex.
    By Emily Jenkins July 13, 2001

  • "The Cider House Rules"

    In adapting his novel for the screen, John Irving wanted the story to be trimmer than in his book -- as long as he was the one wielding the knife.
    By Charles Taylor October 27, 2000

  • Look out! Here comes a sound bite!

    Being at the Academy Awards has a strange effect on the attendees. Some are moved to eloquence, some to idiocy, while others become just plain insufferable.
    By Amy Reiter March 27, 2000

  • The John Irving rules

    Oscar watch: The author of "The Cider House Rules" talks about his Academy Award nomination, abortion and his strange fixation on oral sex.
    By Jeff Stark March 8, 2000

  • "Beauty" pageant

    Oscar nominations for suburban satire and Denzel Washington; "Mr. Ripley" and Jim Carrey snubbed.
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 16, 2000

  • "The Cider House Rules"

    Driven by Tobey Maguire's marvelously layered performance, Lasse Hallstrvm's old-fashioned cinematic yarn-spinning yields genuine emotion without sentimentality.
    By Stephanie Zacharek January 25, 2000

  • Tom Wolfe calls Irving, Mailer and Updike "the Three Stooges"

    "Bonfire of the Vanities" author fans literary feud.
    By Craig Offman January 21, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    I knew Mumia when he was Wesley Cook. Plus: The L.A. Times' "blow job"; don't ask, don't tell about Stuart Little.
    Letters to the editor January 5, 2000

  • John Irving blasts Tom Wolfe, Wolfe blasts back

    Irving says Wolfe can't write, Wolfe says Irving's all washed up.
    By Craig Offman December 21, 1999

  • Kelleyvision

    The creator of "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" owns prime time. How many cat fights, dwarf lawyers and middlebrow sermons can we take?
    By Joyce Millman September 20, 1999

  • A prayer for Owen Mean

    John Irving emerges as a capitalist windbag as class warfare erupts in Vermont.
    By Peter Kurth July 1, 1998

  • A Widow For One Year

    Peter Kurth reviews 'A Widow for One Year' by John Irving.
    By Peter Kurth April 28, 1998

  • John Irving

    Literature's muscle man talks about how he wrestled his writing career to the ground and why he'd like to grind critics' faces into the mat.
    By Joan Smith March 3, 1997

  • Personal Best: A Prayer for Owen Meany

    "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
    By Cintra Wilson September 30, 1996
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