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Ryan Coleman
Your Literary Guide to the 2024 Oscars
Ryan Coleman on This Year’s Academy Award Nominees for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay
By
Ryan Coleman
| March 4, 2024
A New Era for Lena Dunham? Why the Controversial Creator is a Perfect Match for the Middle Ages
Catherine Called Birdy
Is as Thoroughly Medieval as It Is Dunhamesque
By
Ryan Coleman
| October 14, 2022
The Highs and Lows of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Literary Offerings
Ryan Coleman Previews
Women Talking
,
Emily
,
The Wonder
,
Causeway
, and
Catherine, Called Birdy
By
Ryan Coleman
| September 23, 2022
Albert Serra’s
Pacifiction
is Deeply Unsettling—and Deeply Literary
From Cannes, Ryan Coleman Finds the Renegade Spanish Filmmaker Crafting Something Entirely New
By
Ryan Coleman
| June 8, 2022
Claire Denis’s
Stars at Noon
is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material
From Cannes, Ryan Coleman Considers the French Filmmaker's Adaptation of Denis Johnson’s Novel
By
Ryan Coleman
| June 8, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
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by
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by
L. M. Chilton
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa
December 11, 2025
by
Nadia Davids
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"