Get in the mood for summer with Maya Angelou's 1957 performance of calypso hit

Get in the mood for summer with Maya Angelou's 1957 performance of calypso hit "Run Joe."

By Emily Temple | May 28, 2021

Hermione Hoby on the Anarchic Silliness of Vera Chytilová's <em>Daisies</em>

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

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | May 27, 2021

These are the only <em>Anna Karenina</em> adaptations you actually need to know about.

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

By Dan Sheehan | May 26, 2021

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

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

Michael Koresky Reconsiders Baby Boom

By Michael Koresky | May 26, 2021

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

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

“In that moment I felt like I was playing Russian roulette.”

By Julianna Margulies | May 25, 2021

How Daytime Soaps and a PBS Documentary Laid the Groundwork for <em>The Real Housewives</em>

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

Brian Moylan Traces the Lineage of a Reality TV Empire

By Brian Moylan | May 25, 2021

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

By Katie Yee | May 20, 2021

How Does a Book Get Adapted for TV or Film?

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar | May 20, 2021

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

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

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | May 20, 2021

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

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

By Dan Sheehan | May 19, 2021

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

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

This Week from the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | May 17, 2021

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

A. J. Gnuse on Our Misplaced Fear of the Gothic

By A. J. Gnuse | May 14, 2021

Barry Jenkins’ <em>Underground Railroad</em> is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

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

You Will Not Be Able to Look Away

By Emily Temple | May 14, 2021

Chasing the Hollywood Dream: <br>A Reading List

Chasing the Hollywood Dream:
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Katherine St. John and Books That Bring Celebrity to Life

By Katherine St. John | May 14, 2021

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

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

Martha C. Nussbaum on What We Forgive in the Name of Art

By Martha C. Nussbaum | May 13, 2021

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