Provocative novelist A.M. Homes weighs in on tension and desire in director Stanley Kubrick's swan song, "Eyes Wide Shut."

Reviewer of this writer's fourth novel, "Music for Torching," suggests its characters and plot would be put to better use in a movie.

Capsule review of "The End of Alice," the fourth book by this dark writer, finds Homes' treatment of pedophilia and violence "gratuitous."