• Film and TV

    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
    Book Collection

    “Horseshit!” Yes, Marlon Brando, Eclectic Bibliophile, Wrote in His Books

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  June 7, 2021
    Open Form

    Justice for Clubber Lang: Kiese Laymon on a Cast-Off American Hero

    By Open Form  June 3, 2021
    Documentaries

    On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

    By Teresa Fazio  June 2, 2021
    Pop Culture

    How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

    By Grace Perry  June 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Alan Cumming’s new memoir, set to publish in October, focuses on his life in Hollywood.

    By Walker Caplan  June 1, 2021
    Keen On

    Robert McKee on the Design of a Character Universe

    By Keen On  June 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Get in the mood for summer with Maya Angelou’s 1957 performance of calypso hit “Run Joe.”

    By Emily Temple  May 28, 2021
    Open Form

    Hermione Hoby on the Anarchic Silliness of Vera Chytilová’s Daisies

    By Open Form  May 27, 2021
    The Hub

    These are the only Anna Karenina adaptations you actually need to know about.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 26, 2021
    Film Reviews

    How Rewatching an 80s Film With My Mom Informed My Politics on Motherhood and Time

    By Michael Koresky  May 26, 2021
    TV

    Uncle Vanya and George Clooney: Julianna Margulies Recalls the Tipping Point of Her TV Career

    By Julianna Margulies  May 25, 2021
    Reality TV

    How Daytime Soaps and a PBS Documentary Laid the Groundwork for The Real Housewives

    By Brian Moylan  May 25, 2021
    The Hub

    Doubleday is doubling down on Stacey Abrams thrillers.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Bob’s Burgers is the most literary TV show ever. (Arguably, anyway.)

    By Katie Yee  May 20, 2021
    Literary Adaptations

    How Does a Book Get Adapted for TV or Film?

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  May 20, 2021
    Open Form

    R.O. Kwon on the Joy of Seeing a New Kind of Korean Childhood in Minari

    By Open Form  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Mary South’s nursing home phone-sex short story is getting the Hollywood treatment.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 19, 2021
    Big Table

    Nick Ebeling on the Enigma of Dennis Hopper, an “Outsider’s Insider”

    By Big Table  May 17, 2021
    Horror

    Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

    By A. J. Gnuse  May 14, 2021
    TV

    Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
    Celebrity

    Chasing the Hollywood Dream:
    A Reading List

    By Katherine St. John  May 14, 2021
    Power

    Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

    By Martha C. Nussbaum  May 13, 2021
    Mountaineering

    “Why Are You Doing This?” On Mountaineering in the 21st Century

    By Margret Grebowicz  May 13, 2021
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