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The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

Before Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the World Nearly Got Ayn Rand’s ”Tribute to Free Enterprise”

By Greg Mitchell | July 17, 2023

Can Writers Have Fun? <em>Afire</em> is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

Can Writers Have Fun? Afire is a Character Study of a Self-Absorbed Novelist

Elissa Suh on Christian Petzold’s New Comedy of Manners

By Elissa Suh | July 14, 2023

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where <em>Casablanca</em> Ends

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

Tabea Alexa Linhard Explains Why Refugee History is Everyone’s History

By Tabea Alexa Linhard | July 14, 2023

Why Regency Romance Needs to Give Its Characters of Color Greater Agency

Why Regency Romance Needs to Give Its Characters of Color Greater Agency

Amita Murray on Queen Charlotte, Bridgerton, and Navigating the Genre as a Brown Writer of South Asian Descent

By Amita Murray | July 13, 2023

How Lauren Bacall Secured Her Legendary Love Story with Humphrey Bogart

How Lauren Bacall Secured Her Legendary Love Story with Humphrey Bogart

William J. Mann on the Movie Star’s Memoirs

By William J. Mann | July 12, 2023

Errol Flynn and Harvey Weinstein: Writing About Past Hollywood Abuses in the Midst of #MeToo

Errol Flynn and Harvey Weinstein: Writing About Past Hollywood Abuses in the Midst of #MeToo

Lindsay Lynch on Writing Historical Fiction to Understand the Present

By Lindsay Lynch | July 11, 2023

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A Woman Satisfied: Alyssa Songsiridej on the Refreshing Lack of Regret in Past Lives

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How Nonfiction Writing and Documentary Filmmaking Curate the Truth

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This summer, read a screenplay.

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 6, 2023

Bill Boggs, Satirist of America’s Addiction to Celebrity, Drugs, Sex, and Food

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 6, 2023

Indiana Jones: Here We Go Again

Indiana Jones: Here We Go Again

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a Rousing, Genuinely Entertaining Return to the Franchise

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 30, 2023

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July

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By Emily Temple | June 30, 2023

Aisha Harris Talks Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls, and Stevie Wonder

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Big Songs, Big Emotions: On <em>Glee</em>, Santana’s Coming Out Scene, and Naya Rivera

Big Songs, Big Emotions: On Glee, Santana’s Coming Out Scene, and Naya Rivera

“Getting to write for her was one of the best things I’ve ever gotten to do.”

By Thea Glassman | June 29, 2023

Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

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Revisiting <em>The Graduate</em>: Is It Outdated?

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