New York magazine
Going Over the Line
In Josephine Decker’s new film, Shirley (and in life generally), being a muse is a trap.
10 min |
June 8-21, 2020
Soap Opera Digest
Young & Restless
Traci returned from a boarding school in the summer of 1982 to spend time with her family before going off to college.
3 min |
June 8, 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics
So Sad, Can’t Stop Laughing
6 min |
June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
Edie Falco– Words to Live By
Actress Edie Falco on the art of not always following the rules
3 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
Dead Heat
With Dead to Me, Liz Feldman has created the best “traumedy” on television.
2 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
The Doctor Is In
As Dr. Maya Jacobs on Carol’s Second Act, Ito Aghayere delivers the laughs.
4 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
The Royal We
Michelle and Robert King, the husband and wife team behind The Good Fight and Evil, are Hollywood’s reigning power couple.
7 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
Show Her The Money
Kirsten Dunst schemes her way into our hearts as striving single mom Krystal stubbs on Showtime's On Becoming a God in Central Florida.
9 min |
May/June 2020
Mystery Scene
R.G. BELSKY
Social distancing may have been common among working writers before it was a necessity, but not all members of that tribe adhered to the stereotype.
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
What About Murder?
Reference Books Reviewed
5 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
VAL,QUEEN OF SCOTS
ONE OF THE LIVING LEGENDS OF MYSTERY WRITING, VAL McDERMID HAS ENTERTAINED READERS AND DRIVEN THE GENRE FORWARD FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, BUT SHE WAS NO OVERNIGHT SUCCESS
10+ min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
THE BEAUTIFUL DARK
Barry Gifford and the Noir Revival
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
the Hook
Intriguing First Lines
3 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
IVY POCHODA
It may seem odd to equate Greek drama and athletics with contemporary mysteries. But author Ivy Pochoda sees a logical intersection with the violence, structure, and drive inherent in these subjects.
10+ min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
PUSHING WATER
Write what you know” is the hoariest piece of writing advice, as well as the one most often misapplied. As Stephen King said in his outstanding book On Writing, what if you want to write about serial killers or intergalactic space flight?
2 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
Grand Dame Guignol
Sometimes over the top, other times way over the top, Grand Dame Guignol was grisly, memorable entertainment buoyed by the sort of movie stars they no longer make: actresses whose talent, intensity, and willingness to take risks with their images made the wildly melodramatic seem frighteningly real.
6 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
EDITH MAXWELL aka MADDIE DAY
Cozies certainly provide solace from many of the dark edges of the actual world,” says Edith Maxwell.
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
AN OATH AND A TERRORIST
It was the late 2000s and the United States government was engaged in a global hunt for Osama bin Laden.
2 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
When Anime Becomes a Refuge For Patriotism
In addition to entertainment, China’s Bilibili offers nationalism to its young audience
5 min |
May 04, 2020
Men's Journal
The Fast and the Curious
Pro wrestling, raunchy comedy, children’s books, action flicks.... There’s not much that John Cena won’t try. And at age 43, he’s just getting started.
10+ min |
May - June 2020
World Literature Today
The Old Man Who Lives Two Floors Below
Down the first twist of stairs and Josie hears she is not alone, like hearing a tree in the wind beyond her bedroom window. The old man: splay-legged before his door like a failing easel, he moves slow as death.
4 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Our Nations, Ourselves
A Conversation with Robin Hemley
9 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Translating History
A Conversation with Isabel Fargo Cole
10+ min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
The Pregnant Woman from Zamboanga
In this story by an indigenous writer from the southern Philippines, a crime continues to haunt a local’s thoughts.
7 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
CONVERSATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF TRANSLATION
Good Storytelling Still Trending - An Interview with Antonia Lloyd-Jones
8 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Cheating / Death
A girl learns her first lessons about cheating and death at her grandparents’ house, playing cards and Scrabble and listening to them read from the obituaries in the Detroit Jewish News.
10+ min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Tokyo's Mukōjima Hyakkaen Garden
NEAR THE HEART of old Tokyo, surrounded by the largest metro area in the world, the Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden provides a respite from the bustle of the city with a traditional and lush corner of peace and quiet. For more than two centuries, the garden has been a haven for the city’s writers and artists as well as anyone who desires a temporary escape from urban life into the subtle tranquility of nature.
2 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Race, History, and the Body
Humanity on Display
7 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder - A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay
Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists biomedical prescriptivism and espouses the political potential of sharing subjective experiences of living with bipolar disorder through comics. Her comic strip “Rachel Lives Here Now” appears weekly in Seven Days, an alternative newspaper in Vermont. In our conversation with Lindsay, we discuss the pertinent issues surrounding mental health and the role of graphic memoirs in reclaiming the identity of the patient in a hierarchical biomedical system, specifically in the context of her recent memoir, RX.
10+ min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
LIT TRENDS - 3 Online Book Clubs with a Global Perspective
ONE OF LIFE’S GREAT pleasures is sharing a favorite book with a community of bright, engaging friends, wine in hand and the fireplace crackling. In a perfect world, the host of your local book club is charming, the introverts are cozy and the extroverts gregarious, the conversation is brilliant and never lags, and the serving board groans under the weight of everyone’s best-loved dishes.
2 min |