Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism

Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism

In Conversation with John Burnham Schwartz on Sun Valley Writers’ Conference’s Beyond the Page

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | September 1, 2023

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

Lauren Carroll Harris on the Sober Spectacle of The Day After Trinity and The Strangest Dream

By Lauren Carroll Harris | August 31, 2023

The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

Shaenon K. Garrity Takes Roll Call, from Agatha Christie to Harriet the Spy

By Shaenon K. Garrity | August 25, 2023

How <em>From Here to Eternity</em> Contradicted Post-War America’s Wholesome Notions

How From Here to Eternity Contradicted Post-War America’s Wholesome Notions

M. J. Moore on James Jones’s 1951 Novel and Its Film Adaptation

By M. J. Moore | August 24, 2023

On the Death of the Comedy Blockbuster

On the Death of the Comedy Blockbuster

Saul Austerliz Wants to Know: Where Might the Next Will Ferrell Come From?

By Saul Austerlitz | August 23, 2023

Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost

Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost

Orlando Reade on the Deep Parallels Between Barbie and John Milton’s Late Renaissance Epic

By Orlando Reade | August 23, 2023

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We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom

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The Library is Open: On Party Girl, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work

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"I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them": When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection

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<em>The Last Voyage of the Demeter</em> is a Creative <em>Dracula</em> Adaptation That Bites Off a Bit More Than It Can Chew

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Olivia Rutigliano Grades André Øvredal's New Film on a Curve

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On the Men Who Lent Their Bodies (and Voices) to the Earliest Iterations of Superman

On the Men Who Lent Their Bodies (and Voices) to the Earliest Iterations of Superman

A Wrestler, a Sunday School Teacher, and a Mystery Man Walk into a Studio

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Watch the creepy first trailer for <em>The Changeling</em>.

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How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

“Helen’s spell has always depended, in part, on her own erotic agency, exercised in defiance of male authority.”

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Adrian Tomine on the Delight of Collaborating on the <em>Shortcomings</em> Adaptation

Adrian Tomine on the Delight of Collaborating on the Shortcomings Adaptation

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The Ineffable Romance of <em>Good Omens</em>... Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

The Ineffable Romance of Good Omens... Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

Alexis Gunderson on the Funny Calm Before a Storm

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Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s <em>Orlando</em>

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Hannah Bonner on the Utopian Future of Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography

By Hannah Bonner | August 3, 2023

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