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How <em>Ten Percent</em>, Like <em>Call My Agent!</em> Before it, Turns Celebrity Into Text

How Ten Percent, Like Call My Agent! Before it, Turns Celebrity Into Text

Alexis Gunderson on the British Remake of the Campy Celebrity Send-up

By Alexis Gunderson | May 9, 2022

<em>Ten Steps to Nanette</em> by Hannah Gadsby, Read by the Author

Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby, Read by the Author

Don’t Miss This Audiobook

By Behind the Mic | May 9, 2022

Leslie Jamison on the Role of the Graspy Grad Student in <em>Midsommar</em>

Leslie Jamison on the Role of the Graspy Grad Student in Midsommar

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | May 5, 2022

It looks like filming is going to start on Ocean Vuong’s beloved debut novel.

It looks like filming is going to start on Ocean Vuong’s beloved debut novel.

By Katie Yee | May 4, 2022

<em>Happening</em> Captures the Horrifying Everydayness of Illegal Abortion

Happening Captures the Horrifying Everydayness of Illegal Abortion

Caroline Godard on the Film Adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s 2000 Memoir

By Caroline Godard | May 4, 2022

A Shakespearean Study Guide for <em>The Northman</em>

A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

Saxo and Shakespeare, Masculine Fantasies, and Racist Fictions in Robert Eggers’s New Blockbuster

By The Why Shakespeare? Course | May 3, 2022

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The Untold and Very True Story of The Devil Wears Prada

By Amy Odell | May 3, 2022

The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

By Eliza Smith | May 2, 2022

Andy Serkis is bringing this 1996 Elizabeth McCracken novel to the big screen.

By Dan Sheehan | April 28, 2022

Food and Drink Pairings For Patrick Swayze’s Filmography? Yes Please.

Food and Drink Pairings For Patrick Swayze’s Filmography? Yes Please.

Red Dawn Obviously Calls for Bloody Marys and Beef Stroganoff

By Neal E. Fischer | April 28, 2022

Maybe Don’t Try to Play the <em>Withnail & I</em> Drinking Game

Maybe Don’t Try to Play the Withnail & I Drinking Game

Adam Haslett in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on Open Form

By Open Form | April 28, 2022

What <em>Julia</em>—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

What Julia—HBO’s New Julia Child Series—Gets Terribly Wrong About Legendary Editor Judith Jones

Sara Franklin on the Stark Boundaries Between Myth and Reality

By Sara B. Franklin | April 27, 2022

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Paul Fischer’s on a Dark Corner of Motion Picture Lore

By Paul Fischer | April 22, 2022

On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

Colleen Hubbard Couldn’t Have Written Her Novel Without the BBC’s Historic Farm Series

By Colleen Hubbard | April 21, 2022

John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered <em>Bright Star</em>

John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered Bright Star

Lucasta Miller Investigates the Limits and Possibilities of Literary Biopics

By Lucasta Miller | April 21, 2022

What Does It Mean to Cook Dinner Under Occupation? Rewatching <em>The Time That Remains</em>

What Does It Mean to Cook Dinner Under Occupation? Rewatching The Time That Remains

Randa Jarrar in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | April 21, 2022

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