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Film and TV

Film

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

By Emily Temple  June 8, 2020
Photography

Listen to Claudia Rankine on whiteness and the photography of Paul Graham.

By Jonny Diamond  June 3, 2020
The Hub

Mad Men is leaving Netflix. Time to read John Cheever.

By Raf Richardson-Carillo  June 2, 2020
Film

Hollywood’s Unlikely Evolution from The Birth of a Nation to Wokeness

By Greg Garrett  June 1, 2020
The Hub

Sorry nerds, the big Dungeons & Dragons movie is delayed because of coronavirus.

By Jonny Diamond  May 29, 2020
The Hub

Latest Irish literary phenom Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times is coming to TV.

By Dan Sheehan  May 28, 2020
Adaptations

Will the new adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo be an adaptation at all?

By Aaron Robertson  May 27, 2020
The Hub

The absolute weirdest episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer still slaps 20 years later.

By Emily Temple  May 22, 2020
The Hub

Antidepressants or Tolkien: a quiz for actual sad nerds.

By Jonny Diamond  May 21, 2020
The Hub

The creators of the new adaptation of The Stand swear it’s not just about plagues.

By Aaron Robertson  May 20, 2020
Feminism

On 1970s Feminism and Watching Mrs. America
as a Trans Woman

By Veronica Esposito  May 19, 2020
Media

How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

By Lisa Napoli  May 18, 2020
The Hub

Here’s Katherine Anne Porter describing how she resisted death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

By Dan Sheehan  May 15, 2020
Education

Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children’s Television

By David Kamp  May 15, 2020
The Hub

Before there was Jessica Fletcher, there were the Snoop Sisters.

By Olivia Rutigliano  May 14, 2020
The Cold War

Jazz, Jeans, and Movie Stars: Joseph Brodsky on Glimpsing the West
From Afar

By Joseph Brodsky  May 14, 2020
Adaptations

Ethan Hawke is “.44 caliber abolitionist” John Brown in The Good Lord Bird.

By Aaron Robertson  May 13, 2020
The Hub

Sofia Coppola is adapting Edith Wharton’s post-divorce novel.

By Dan Sheehan  May 13, 2020
The Hub

Watch the first episode of a forgotten 1970 TV adaptation of Don Quixote . . . set in space.

By Emily Temple  May 12, 2020
TV

Netflix is (already) adapting Elena Ferrante’s new novel The Lying Life of Adults.

By Aaron Robertson  May 12, 2020
The Hub

10 reflections on Orson Welles’ drunken champagne commercial outtakes.

By Dan Sheehan  May 8, 2020
The Hub

Elisabeth Moss is playing Shirley Jackson in a new movie, and it looks insanely good.

By Emily Temple  May 8, 2020
Mr. Rogers

Dear Mr. Rogers: A Letter From Officer Clemmons

By François Clemmons  May 8, 2020
From the Archive

There is a Made-for-TV Movie Version of To the Lighthouse and It’s Actually Not That Bad

By Emily Temple  May 6, 2020
The Hub

Adam Driver is set to star in (yet another) adaptation of a David Grann article.

By Dan Sheehan  April 30, 2020
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