• Film and TV

    Television

    All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

    Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV

     
    By Kristen Martin  January 22, 2025
    Adaptations

    What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

    By Ariel Dorfman  January 16, 2025
    The Hub

    Which of Tom Hanks’ beloved typewriters are you?

    By Brittany Allen  January 15, 2025
    Film & TV

    Here’s Your 2025 Literary Film & TV Preview

    By Emily Temple  January 14, 2025
    What to Watch

    Defying Empire: On the Perennially Relevant Political Message of Wicked

    By Aaron Boehmer  January 13, 2025
    The Hub

    There’s a new movie version of Hamlet staged in Grand Theft Auto.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  January 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux).

    By Brittany Allen  January 8, 2025
    Vampires

    What Does It Mean to Remake Nosferatu Instead of Simply Dracula?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  January 3, 2025
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    The Hub

    On the immortality of David Lynch.

    Remembering the late director's weirdest worlds.

    By Brittany Allen  January 17, 2025
    Literary Adaptations

    My Favorite Book-to-TV Adaptations of 2024

    By Maris Kreizman  December 19, 2024
    The Hub

    The rom-com of…Young Werther? Goethe’s famous sadsack is getting a new adaptation.

    By Brittany Allen  December 18, 2024
    Motherhood

    Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

    By Janet Manley  December 6, 2024
    Muses

    An Enigma Embodied: On Monica Vitti, Italy’s Muse of Incommunicability

    Joanna Biggs Considers the Role of Feminist Agency On and Off the Silver Screen

    By Joanna Biggs  December 4, 2024
    The Hub

    A little treat for Caro-heads: Bryan Cranston reads from The Power Broker.

    By James Folta  December 3, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read if you can’t wait for the next season of You Must Remember This.

    By Brittany Allen  November 19, 2024
    The Hub

    Martin Scorsese may be adapting Marilynne Robinson’s Home.

    By Brittany Allen  November 15, 2024
    The Hub

    Is Donald Trump going to sue the media into complicity and silence?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 15, 2024
    Politics

    They’re Screening an Adaptation of My Novel in an Israeli Settlement, So I’m Boycotting It

    By Mirza Waheed  November 13, 2024
    The Hub

    Six newsletters to get you through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  November 11, 2024
    Movies

    A Children’s Classic Turned Box Office Bomb: Inside the Failed Experiment of Babe: Pig in the City

    By Tim Robey  November 8, 2024
    Horror

    Why Horror Needs Humor

    Tyler Malone Wonders If Laughter is the Best Medicine or the Worst Disease

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2024
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

    By Emily Temple  October 31, 2024
    Film

    Conclave, a Quiet Masterpiece, is the Papal Thriller We’ve Been Waiting For

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 29, 2024
    What to Watch

    The 10 Best Literary Adaptations of 2024

    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 20, 2024
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