• Film and TV

    Film Criticism

    What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

    Henry Lien on Self-Esteem, "My Neighbor Totoro," and Defying Box-Office Tropes

     
    By Henry Lien  March 10, 2025
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in March

    By Emily Temple  February 28, 2025
    The Hub

    Every one of Bridget Jones’s boyfriends, ranked.

    By Brittany Allen  February 26, 2025
    Video Games

    Cult of the Cowboy: Inside the Toxic Adoration of an All-American Obsession

    By Rachel Wagner  February 26, 2025
    Campus Novels

    In Praise of Wonder Boys (Both the Book AND the Movie)

    By Ed Simon  February 25, 2025
    The Hub

    All Fours is being adapted for TV. Here’s our dream cast.

    By Brittany Allen  February 24, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 20, 2025
    Television

    Finding Comfort in TV That No One Else Is Talking About

    By Anandi Mishra  February 20, 2025
    Adaptations

    RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

    By Brittany Allen  February 19, 2025
    The Hub

    What books are the characters from this year’s best picture nominees reading?

    By James Folta  February 28, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Travel

    All the literary adaptations at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

    By Brittany Allen  February 3, 2025
    Technology

    Cinema May Be Dying, But Shitposting is a Thriving New Artform

    By Alex Rollins Berg  February 3, 2025
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in February

    Basically, Bridget Jones

    By Emily Temple  January 31, 2025
    Escapism

    As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

    By Maris Kreizman  January 30, 2025
    TV

    Severance is a Realist Manifesto for the 21st Century

    By Joel Cuthbertson  January 27, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in The Shining

    By Maggie Su  January 27, 2025
    Television

    All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

    Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV

    By Kristen Martin  January 22, 2025
    The Hub

    On the immortality of David Lynch.

    By Brittany Allen  January 17, 2025
    Adaptations

    What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

    By Ariel Dorfman  January 16, 2025
    The Hub

    Which of Tom Hanks’ beloved typewriters are you?

    By Brittany Allen  January 15, 2025
    Film & TV

    Here’s Your 2025 Literary Film & TV Preview

    27 Shows and Movies to Stream and See This Year

    By Emily Temple  January 14, 2025
    What to Watch

    Defying Empire: On the Perennially Relevant Political Message of Wicked

    By Aaron Boehmer  January 13, 2025
    The Hub

    There’s a new movie version of Hamlet staged in Grand Theft Auto.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  January 10, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Elyse Durham  February 19, 2025
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