By Rachel Greben For Sophia Loren, writing became like acting: she expanded her capacity for self-expression through art.
By Jonah Hall Jonathan Abrams' riveting new book, Boys Among Men, follows more than a dozen players on their paths—often fraught and confusing—from high school to the NBA.
By Emily Burns Morgan In Hulme's only novel, which won the 1985 Booker Prize, the body of a lost white child stands in for that of European colonizers.
By Mary Rechner Katie Chase talks about what a story's style communicates, the value and possibilities of first-person narration, and the genesis of the stories in her first collection.
By Patrick McGinty This year's Wimbledon highlights packages joined points in media res. But when internet video editors no longer have time to show Rafael Nadal pulling his shorts from his butt, have they failed to capture the actuality of professional tennis?
By Wendy Bourgeois One minute, William James lectures soberly on the nuances of Hegel and Humanism, and the next he fills a page with lunacy, mocking what he calls “abstraction worship” with wild metaphors like “the bellyband of the universe must be tight.”
By Pete Tothero A number of writers and directors originally encouraged to be "visionary" and "film-geek-friendly" now find themselves at odds with backtracking Disney executives over stand-alone Star Wars films in development.
Reviews, reflections, conversations.
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