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

A Woman Satisfied: Alyssa Songsiridej on the Refreshing Lack of Regret in <em>Past Lives</em>

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

“Nora lives just one life, one she wants and that she has chosen.”

By Alyssa Songsiridej | July 7, 2023

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How Nonfiction Writing and Documentary Filmmaking Curate the Truth

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

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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

With Some A+ Throwbacks to Get You Through the Summer Slump

By Emily Temple | June 30, 2023

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

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

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 30, 2023

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

Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | June 27, 2023

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: Is It Outdated?

Revisiting The Graduate: Is It Outdated?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | June 26, 2023

Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness

Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness

Noah Ciubotaru Wonders if We’ve Given Antihero Stories Too Much Credit

By Noah Ciubotaru | June 23, 2023

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