• Film and TV

    The Hub

    Because IP is also deathless and eternal, AMC is developing an Anne Rice extended TV universe.

    By Walker Caplan  June 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Richard Wright’s lost novel has just been optioned for seven figures.

    By Dan Sheehan  June 25, 2021
    The Hub

    10 things all writers could learn from
    Love Island. No, seriously.

    By Emily Temple  June 25, 2021
    Open Form

    Jason Diamond on the Yuppie Nightmare of Beetlejuice

    By Open Form  June 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Attention internet, J.D. Vance has Complaints about the Gossip Girl reboot.

    By Emily Temple  June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Lessons of a self-published writer: independent bookstores are good, Amazon not so much.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Remember when Jonathan Franzen was on Jeopardy!?

    By Emily Temple  June 23, 2021
    Folklore

    How Racism, American Idealism, and Patriotism Created the Modern Myth of the Alamo and Davy Crockett

    By Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford  June 22, 2021
    The Hub

    The short story that broke the internet will soon be a movie starring Nicholas Braun (?!).

    By Walker Caplan  June 21, 2021
    Travel

    This prestigious German TV writing competition is . . . very German.

    By Walker Caplan  June 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Let Tom Hiddleston read your kids a bedtime story.

    By Dan Sheehan  June 17, 2021
    Open Form

    Jordan Kisner Talks Pain, Masculinity, and Cowboys in Chloé Zhao’s The Rider

    By Open Form  June 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Sarah Polley is adapting Miriam Toews’s Women Talking and the cast is perfect.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 16, 2021
    The Hub

    “They’re old and outdated. That’s the truth.” Little Richard on why the critics should shut up.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  June 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. trade insults on live television.

    By Walker Caplan  June 15, 2021
    Surfing

    What The Endless Summer Gets Right—and Wrong—About African Surf Culture

    By Kunyalala Ndlovu  June 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch this never-aired ABC television profile of James Baldwin.

    By Walker Caplan  June 14, 2021
    Keen On

    The Painful Compromise of Chasing Artistic Dreams in Putin’s Russia

    By Keen On  June 14, 2021
    Film

    How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

    By Adam Scovell  June 10, 2021
    Open Form

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine on Sunshine Cleaning and Femininity in the Death Industry

    By Open Form  June 10, 2021
    Otherppl

    Barrett Swanson on Searching for Solace and Meaning in Subcultures

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 10, 2021
    The Hub

    Why is every on-screen antiheroine suddenly vaping?

    By Walker Caplan  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Olivia Rodrigo started her career playing a book lover on TV.

    By Katie Yee  June 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Liam Neeson is your new Philip Marlowe.

    By Dan Sheehan  June 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Michelle Zauner will score the film adaptation of her own memoir, Crying in H Mart.

    By Walker Caplan  June 8, 2021
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