Fifteen years ago, Errol Morriss documentary The Thin Blue Line famously resulted in freeing an innocent man from prison. Last…
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Joan Didions The White Album was first published in 1979 and can be considered a follow-up to her Slouching Towards…
The Something Might Happen in the title of Julie Myersons bleak, haunting not-quite-whodunit seems at first already to have happened:…
Jane Juskas first book is a memoir that takes as its starting point what happened when she placed an ad…
Straight from the Horses Mouth comes from the mouth of British movie director Ronald Neame, filtered through the pen of…
The phrase new Hollywood cinema is an ambiguous designation for a town that repeatedly reinvents and rejuvenates itself. Its often…
Does the narrator of a memoir need to be likeable? What if hes particularly unsympathetic? What if the life he…
If James Gavin’s biography Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker was fiction, it would have a…
One of the most fertile partnerships in all of ballet wasn’t seen on stage, but was danced behind the scenes…
The term screwball comedy is one of those genre labels that, like film noir, seems to be applied as loosely…
Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam (2002), David Kaufman Charles Ludlam was a man of the theater…
Theres a reason New Yorks "Hells Kitchen" was called by that name, andto a large degreethat reason is Owen (called…
On her very first LP, on the Bethlehem label in 1957, there was, in the singing and piano playing of…
If youve found yourself left breathless by the breakneck pace of Hollywoods recent action thrillers, you probably have one man…