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    Of course Clea DuVall will direct a show based on Tegan and Sara’s memoir.

    By Corinne Segal  October 21, 2020
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    Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 21, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Ethan Hawke on performing Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.

    By Literary Hub  October 20, 2020
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    The first look at Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    By Jonny Diamond  October 19, 2020
    The Hub

    The week in literary film and TV news.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 16, 2020
    Movies

    The Italian adaptation of Jack London’s Martin Eden is a dreamlike, Romantic epic.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 16, 2020
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    By Literary Hub  October 16, 2020
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    We won’t get to see Lupita Nyong’o star in Americanah after all.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 15, 2020
    The Hub

    Controversial indie screenwriter Christopher Moltisanti throws support behind Biden.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 15, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
    TV

    Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is about to get some Ava DuVernay energy.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 14, 2020
    The Hub

    Glenn Close is unrecognizable in the first trailer for Hillbilly Elegy.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 14, 2020
    The Hub

    Fans of French Exit will love the new film adaptation.

    By Joseph Pomp  October 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Remember: Dirty Dancing demonstrated the best response to a guy pushing Ayn Rand on you.

    By Emily Temple  October 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Charlie Kaufman is adapting Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police into a feature film.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 9, 2020
    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
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    By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  September 22, 2020
    Reading Lists

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