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Fan Fiction with Real People? On MTV's <em>The Challenge</em>

Fan Fiction with Real People? On MTV's The Challenge

When Your Reality TV Becomes a Transgressive Text

By Emily Temple | February 15, 2017

An Incomplete List of Virginia Woolf Puns in Pop Culture

An Incomplete List of Virginia Woolf Puns in Pop Culture

On the 135th anniversary of her birth

By Emily Temple | January 25, 2017

Your Literary Guide to the Sundance Film Festival

Your Literary Guide to the Sundance Film Festival

André Aciman, Alejandro Zambra, Nikolai Leskov, J.D. Salinger and more

By Emily Temple | January 18, 2017

On the Pantsuit Nation Book and the KKK TV Show

On the Pantsuit Nation Book and the KKK TV Show

Against the instant commodification of culture

By Emily Temple | December 22, 2016

Pedro Almodóvar on Adapting Alice Munro for the Screen

Pedro Almodóvar on Adapting Alice Munro for the Screen

"Munro’s inspiration has meant a real moral, aesthetic, and tonal adventure"

By Pedro Almodóvar | December 15, 2016

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness

By Emily Harnett | December 15, 2016

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Watch the Creepy 1969 Short Film Adaptation of "The Lottery"

By Emily Temple | December 14, 2016

8 Great Movies Based on Unusual Literary Source Material

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The Ways in Which I'd Like to Get Attacked By a Bear

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Robert Bresson: 'I'm not a director. I am a filmmaker.'

Robert Bresson: 'I'm not a director. I am a filmmaker.'

Bresson and François-Régis Bastide in Conversation

By Literary Hub | November 17, 2016

We Sent a Poet To Watch <em>Inferno</em> So You Don’t Have To

We Sent a Poet To Watch Inferno So You Don’t Have To

Mary Jo Bang Takes in Tom Hanks on a Friday Night in Missouri

By Peter Nowogrodzki | November 17, 2016

Bad Old Ideas in a Brave New World

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On the Backward-Looking Sexual Politics of Westworld and Ex Machina

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The Spectacle of <em>Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk</em> on the Big Screen

The Spectacle of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk on the Big Screen

Veteran Drew Pham on How Ang Lee's Adaptation Gets it Wrong

By Drew Pham | November 16, 2016

Every House is a Haunted House

Every House is a Haunted House

Why is So Much of Horror About the Home?

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2016

A New Documentary on Isaac Babel Highlights His Continued Relevance

A New Documentary on Isaac Babel Highlights His Continued Relevance

Get an Exclusive Look at David Novack's film Finding Babel

By David Novack | October 28, 2016

Thomas Bernhard:

Thomas Bernhard: "I Am a Story Destroyer"

From Ferry Radax's 1970 Film Three Days, Now in Book Form

By Literary Hub | October 28, 2016

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