• Film and TV

    What to Watch

    Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener Doesn’t See the Forest for the Trees

    The Third of Schrader's “God's Lonely Men” Trilogy Promises a Fruitful Plot but Is Sadly Under-Seeded

     
    By Olivia Rutigliano  May 26, 2023
    What to Watch

    Finding the Humor in Watergate: Co-Author Matthew Krogh on the White House Plumbers Adaptation

    By Matthew Krogh  May 25, 2023
    Literary Criticism

    On Jane Austen and The Lovable Unlikability of Emma Woodhouse

    By Emily Harding  May 24, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Martin Amis on the Genius of Jane Austen (and What the Adaptations Get Wrong)

    By Martin Amis  May 22, 2023
    Screenwriters

    How Screenwriting Can Help You Write Stronger Fiction

    By Crystal Smith Paul  May 19, 2023
    The Hub

    We finally have a trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 18, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Maris Review

    The Person Who Wrote It Is Eating Ramen: Samantha Irby on Writing for TV

    By The Maris Review  May 18, 2023
    What to Watch

    Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

    By Ryan Bedsaul  May 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Ty Burr on Why Hitchcock’s Vertigo Still Matters

    By Keen On  May 18, 2023
    On Death

    Saying Goodbye: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and Her Father

    “Who am I going to laugh with now?”

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  May 26, 2023
    The Hub

    A Hemingway film adaptation with Liev Schreiber and Josh Hutcherson is headed our way.

    By Janet Manley  May 17, 2023
    Aliens?

    We Are Not Alone: Phillip Maciak on His Summer Obsessing Over UFO Videos

    By Phillip Maciak  May 17, 2023
    The Hub

    Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Grief is the Thing With Feathers.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 16, 2023
    The Hub

    Shailene Woodley is your new Patricia Highsmith.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 12, 2023
    What to Watch

    Why Does Hollywood Keep Returning to Peter Pan?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  May 12, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Five Devils is a Cinematic Gothic Novel for the Contemporary Age

    By Laura Valenza  May 12, 2023
    The Hub

    Pedro Páramo is coming to Netflix.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 11, 2023
    What to Watch

    Garth Risk Hallberg Goes Behind the Scenes of the City on Fire Adaptation

    ”The interior was so fully realized and so maximized for pothead goofing off that I didn’t want to leave.”

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  May 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Landon Jones on How America Has Devolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers

    By Keen On  May 10, 2023
    Hollywood

    Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

    By Landon Y. Jones  May 9, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Eight Mountains is a Testament to the Directors’ Commitment to the Story

    By Elissa Suh  May 5, 2023
    Tourism

    The Advanced Guard of Tourism: Tracing a Direct Line Between the Lonely Planet Travel Guides and The Beach

    James Brooke-Smith on Backpackers and Globalization in the 1990s

    By James Brooke-Smith  May 5, 2023
    News and Culture

    How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny

    By Catherine Russell  May 4, 2023
    The Hub

    Taika Waititi has set his sights on Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 2, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 18, 2023
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