Your Literary Guide to the 2024 Oscars

Your Literary Guide to the 2024 Oscars

Ryan Coleman on This Year’s Academy Award Nominees for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay

By Ryan Coleman | March 4, 2024

Why Voting in The Oscars (and in Politics) Is Broken, and How to Fix Both

Why Voting in The Oscars (and in Politics) Is Broken, and How to Fix Both

Ismar Volić on Why We Need to Abandon Winner-Take-All Voting

By Ismar Volić | March 4, 2024

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in March

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in March

Spring? Spring? Spring?

By Emily Temple | March 1, 2024

How Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son</em> Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

How Richard Wright’s Native Son Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry

By Charlene Regester | February 29, 2024

Kyle MacLachlan Keeps Himself Open

Kyle MacLachlan Keeps Himself Open

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | February 27, 2024

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

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Olivia Rutigliano on Diablo Cody and Zelda Williams's 80s-throwback, Mary-Shelley-indebted, high-school zom-com

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 9, 2024

How Stanley Kubrick Brought Stephen King’s <em>The Shining</em> to the Big Screen

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Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams on the Director's Pivotal Role in the Horror Boom of the 1970s

By Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams | February 8, 2024

Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on <em>American Fiction</em>

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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 8, 2024

Paul Giamatti, <br>This One’s For You: In Praise of the King of Pathos

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This One’s For You: In Praise of the King of Pathos

Olivia Rutigliano on the Actor Who Has Never Once Phoned in a Performance

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 2, 2024

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in February

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in February

Because It’s Still Winter

By Emily Temple | February 1, 2024

Will Hot Shakespeare be the new Hot Priest?

Will Hot Shakespeare be the new Hot Priest?

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Wesley Morris on the Disappearing Middle

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This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

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