• Film and TV

    The Hub

    Zachary Quinto and Jim Parsons break out their Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote impressions.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 8, 2020
    Baseball

    On Bill Buckner’s Greatest Catch (with a Little Help from Larry David)

    By Abby Ellin  October 8, 2020
    Magic?

    The Secret History of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board”

    By Emily Temple  October 6, 2020
    Movies

    The 1951 adaptation of Native Son (starring Richard Wright) is a darkly satiric noir.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 5, 2020
    Underreported

    Fatima Bhutto on the New Kings of Pop Culture: Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  October 5, 2020
    Movies

    The Witches looks just as zany as any late-1990s Disney Halloween movie.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 2, 2020
    The Hub

    “Any sort of drug distorts it.” Truman Capote on writing under the influence.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 30, 2020
    The Hub

    An incomplete history of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 28, 2020
    Letters Home

    The Fault Lines of Midwestern
    Racism Run Deep

    By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  September 22, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Nice White Parents, The Princess Bride LIVE, and Samantha Crain

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    The Hub

    Absolute snack Stanley Tucci is writing a memoir about his life as a foodie.

    By Emily Temple  September 17, 2020
    TV

    The Wire and Other Baltimore Shows Are Great TV, But There Are Reasons to be Wary

    By Mary Rizzo  September 16, 2020
    The Hub

    The Jane Austen/Succession crossover event of your dreams is happening.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 15, 2020
    The Hub

    The Langston League has created an episode-by-episode syllabus for Lovecraft Country.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 14, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ziad Antar on Hope Becoming a Fiction After the Beirut Explosion

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 14, 2020
    TV

    The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gave us much to be proud of (including an author).

    By Aaron Robertson  September 11, 2020
    The Hub

    Attention nerds and Chalamet stans: the Dune trailer is here, and it’s pretty epic.

    By Emily Temple  September 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Would a TV show in which Shakespeare’s characters all live in the same hotel be amazing or terrible?

    By Emily Temple  September 8, 2020
    The Hub

    Is Armie Hammer too sensual to play Maxim de Winter?

    By Dan Sheehan  September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    Jonathan Karl: Front Row at the Trump Show

    By Keen On  September 7, 2020
    The Hub

    Ethan Hawke is now a book critic, thereby completing his Literary World Bingo Card.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 1, 2020
    Monsters

    Are We Running Out of Monster Metaphors for the Disasters of the Real World?

    By Erika Swyler  September 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Whoopi communes with a wolf in the first trailer for the new adaptation of The Stand.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 31, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are six movie adaptations that drastically changed their novels’ endings.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 28, 2020
    Westerns

    On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America’s Surreal Borderlands

    By Mike Soto  August 26, 2020
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