Walker Evans The Light Side of the Moon (10 April 2000), on photographs from the Apollo program Lane has also been nominated for National Magazine Awards on a number of other occasions, but has never won one. The nominations include: 1996 award for Special Interest, for the article Look Back in Hunger (18 December), a humorous piece about cookbooks 2000 award for Reviews & Criticism, for the articles The Man in the Mirror (9 August 1999), on André Gide In Love with Fear (16 August 1999), on Alfred Hitchcock Waugh in Pieces (4 October 1999), on Evelyn Waugh Nicholas Lezard, reviewing Lane's collection Nobody's Perfect, wrote that "If the film is good art, or a delight, Lane will communicate precisely, concisely and illuminatingly the relevant merits; if the film sucks, he has some fun." Laura Miller, reviewing that collection in The New York Times, wrote that "Lane writes pose the way Fred Astaire danced; his sentences and paragraphs are a sublime, rhythmic concoction of glide and snap, lightness and sting. Like his beloved Jane Austen, his style is infernally contagious." However, she expressed reservations about his use of puns. In 2008, Lane was named one of the top 30 critics in the world by More Intelligent Life, the web version of the lifestyle publication from The Economist. As of 2010, the movie review aggregation website Metacritic weighted Lane's movie reviews higher than any other critic's. Personal life Lane lives in Cambridge, England with his wife, Allison Pearson, a British writer and columnist. The couple have a daughter, Eveline (born January 1996), and a son, Thomas B. (born August 1998). Bibliography References External links Review of Anthony Lane's book Nobody's Perfect in The Guardian Interview of Anthony Lane by Robert Birnbaum (3 October 2002) Anthony Lane on Rotten Tomatoes 20th-century British journalists 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English non-fiction writers 21st-century British journalists 21st-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century English male writers Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English columnists English film critics Living people People educated at Sherborne School People from Cambridge The Independent people The New Yorker critics Year of birth missing (living people)