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What Do Superheroes and Zombies Have to Do With the End of the World?

What Do Superheroes and Zombies Have to Do With the End of the World?

Peter Biskind on Pop Culture's Obsession with How It All Ends

By Peter Biskind | September 18, 2018

<em>Better Call Saul</em> Knows Morality is About More Than Individual Choice

Better Call Saul Knows Morality is About More Than Individual Choice

How the Breaking Bad Prequel Complicates and Improves on the Original

By Eric Thurm | September 12, 2018

Laura van den Berg on the Horror Films That Inspired Her New Novel

Laura van den Berg on the Horror Films That Inspired Her New Novel

Lurking in the Shadows of The Third Hotel

By Laura van den Berg | August 24, 2018

<em>We the Animals</em> is the Ideal Literary Adaptation

We the Animals is the Ideal Literary Adaptation

This is What Happens When Your Director is an Actual Superfan

By Emily Temple | August 14, 2018

Watch a Mansplain-y Scene from the Adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's <em>The Wife</em>

Watch a Mansplain-y Scene from the Adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's The Wife

In Which an Older Male Writer Gives Feedback to a Younger Female Writer...

By Emily Temple | August 2, 2018

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People's Books for the Screen

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People's Books for the Screen

Or: When Aldous Huxley Wrote Pride and Prejudice

By Emily Temple | July 26, 2018

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Toward a Theory of Radical Corniness

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Does The Handmaid's Tale Want Us to Empathize with Ivanka Trump?

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By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

Why Was 90s TV Full of Violence Against Women?

Why Was 90s TV Full of Violence Against Women?

"Women are Being Beaten, Terrorized, Abducted and Killed at an Alarming Rate"

By Allison Yarrow | July 9, 2018

The Philosophy of Romantic Comedy

The Philosophy of Romantic Comedy

From His Girl Friday to Set it Up, Rom-Com is a Language We All Speak

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In Praise of an Afternoon at the Movies

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Alone in a Quiet Theater, I Wait to Lose Myself

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How <em>Vanya on 42nd Street</em> Captured a Changing New York City

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A Conflicted Feminist Revenge Fantasy for the #MeToo Era

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Dietland Has Teeth. So Why Is it Afraid to Use Them?

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A Clockwork Orange Can Corrupt, Why Not Shakespeare and the Bible?"">A Clockwork Orange Can Corrupt, Why Not Shakespeare and the Bible?"">

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Anthony Burgess on the Reception of Kubrick's Film Adaptation

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The Inherent Anxiety of the "Good Cop" Show

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