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Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Evany Rosen on Assembling Her Own Personal Writers Room

By Evany Rosen | October 25, 2017

I'll See You in Berlin: Xiaolu Guo on a Fresh Start in a New City

I'll See You in Berlin: Xiaolu Guo on a Fresh Start in a New City

"I Wanted to Shoot myself out of London and Everything Else Forever"

By Xiaolu Guo | October 12, 2017

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

What Four Offerings from the NYFF Say About the State of the Genre

By Craig Hubert | September 29, 2017

What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?

What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?

The Frisson of Political Participation Without the Risk of Genuine Solidarity

By Dawn Herrera Helphand | September 20, 2017

Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother's Ghost

Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother's Ghost

Kayla Rae Whitaker on Finding Comfort in IT as a Child

By Kayla Rae Whitaker | September 11, 2017

I Watched the Entire Hot Shakespeare Show So You Don't Have To

I Watched the Entire Hot Shakespeare Show So You Don't Have To

What You Might Have Missed, From Torture to Radiohead

By Eric Thurm | September 8, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Rebel in the Rye is Bad for Writers

By Emily Temple | September 8, 2017

Too Smart or Too Pretty? The Anne of Green Gables Paradox

By Elisa Gabbert | August 29, 2017

Is The Dark Tower the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

By J.W. McCormack | August 11, 2017

Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

And Other Literary Film and TV News from this Week

By Emily Temple | July 28, 2017

Agatha Christie Is Taking Over All Your Screens

Agatha Christie Is Taking Over All Your Screens

And Other Literary Film and Television News

By Emily Temple | July 21, 2017

Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

An Adaptation of an Adaptation of the Scottish Play

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2017

<em>Black Mirror</em> to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

Black Mirror to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

The Week in Literary Film & TV News

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2017

Ta-Nehisi Coates is Writing a Movie & Terry Gilliam Might Finish <em>Don Quixote</em>

Ta-Nehisi Coates is Writing a Movie & Terry Gilliam Might Finish Don Quixote

The Week in Literary Film & TV News

By Emily Temple | June 9, 2017

Every Ending is a Kind of Apocalypse: On Belief and <em>The Leftovers</em>

Every Ending is a Kind of Apocalypse: On Belief and The Leftovers

We want our fiction, like our lives, to end with revelation

By Emily Harnett | June 6, 2017

Dick Whitman Reads Walt Whitman and <em>Two</em> Great Lit Movie Trailers

Dick Whitman Reads Walt Whitman and Two Great Lit Movie Trailers

The Week in Literary Film and TV News

By Emily Temple | June 2, 2017

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