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Friday, January 22, 2021

CREATORS Politics Writers

Barry Lyga and Publishing Friends Condemn “The Monsters Among Us”

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 Jamie Mason 2 Comments Barry Lyga, Censorship, Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, Night and Fog, Regency, Thomas Spence

In a petition, 500 literary professionals seek to define who gets a book deal in the post-Trump world

COMICS Featured Stories

Captain America in: On The Wings Of Liberty

January 20, 2021January 21, 2021 Bill Thomas 0 Comments

80th Anniversary Edition

Kapuściński

NON-FICTION Politics

Kapuściński and the Autocrats

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Ryszard Kapuściński, Shah of Shahs, The Emperor

The late Polish journalist, like no other writer, understood societies in crisis

Murakami

CREATORS Featured Stories FICTION Writers

The Empathy of Haruki Murakami

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Haruki Murakami, Ozamu Dazi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima

Japan’s most famous writer looks at the COVID-19 crisis from the viewpoint of ordinary people

Cary Grant

CLASSICS Featured Stories FILM

Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend

January 18, 2021January 21, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 2 Comments Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Father Goose, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Leslie Caron, Loretta Young, Mark Glancy, North By Northwest, The Awful Truth, The Dishop's Wife

Reconsidering the movie star who rarely “played himself”

MLK/FBI

DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘MLK/FBI’ Skips the Money Shot

January 18, 2021January 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Clint Eastwood, Dr. Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, Jr., MLK/FBI

Documentary about J. Edgar Hoover spying on Martin Luther King Jr. refuses to fully go there

WandaVision

‘WandaVision’ Marks the Beginning of the Post-TV Era

January 16, 2021January 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Bewitched, Breaking Bad, Debra Jo Rupp, Elizabeth Olson, Fred Melamed, I Love Lucy, Kathryn Hahn, Mad Men, Marvel, MCU, Paul Bettany, The Brady Bunch, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Sopranos, The Wire, WandaVision

A classic superhero show about classic sitcoms

Locked Down

‘Locked Down’: A COVID-era diamond heist flick

January 16, 2021January 18, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Anne Hathaway, Ben Kingsley, Ben Stiller, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doug Liman, Locked Down, Lucy Boynton, Mindy Kaling, Sexy Beast, Stephen Merchant

Too soon, guys

The Stand

FICTION TELEVISION

‘The Stand’ Doesn’t Deliver

January 14, 2021January 19, 2021 Scott Gold 1 Comment Alexander Skarsgard, Gary Sinise, Heather Graham, James Marsden, Jovan Adepo, Molly Ringwald, Odessa Young, Owen Teague, Randall Flagg, Rob Lowe, Stephen King, The Stand, Whoopi Goldberg

‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ is absent in CBS All Access reboot of Stephen King’s apocalypse saga. So is linear narrative.

Sally Rooney

CREATORS FICTION Writers

Literary Twitter Goes Rooney Tunes Over New Sally Rooney Novel Announcement

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amber Sparks, Beautiful World Where Are You, Brandon Taylor, Elisa Gabbert, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Hulu, Lorrie Moore, Mitzi Angel, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Buy stock in Kleenex for September 2021

Orwell

The Boys Who Cried Orwell

January 13, 2021January 16, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment 1984, Andrew Sullivan, Animal Farm, Bret Stephens, Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Louis Menand, Ron Charles, Sean Spicer, Ted Cruz

Everything is Orwellian, apparently

ngo

CREATORS NON-FICTION Politics Writers

Ngo is a No-Go at Powell’s

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Andy Ngo, Portland, Powell's Books, Proud Boys, Sarah Jeong, Unmasked

Portland bookstore pulls anti-Antifa book after protests

Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Most Badass Movie Moments

January 12, 2021January 16, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Arnold Schwarzenegger, Batman and Robin, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Hercules In New York, Kindergarten Cop, Mr. Freeze, Pumping Iron, Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Running Man, Total Recall

Going Commando, kicking ice, and taking names since 1970

Concrete Rose

FICTION Young Adult

‘Concrete Rose’: a Compassionate Prequel to ‘The Hate U Give’

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose, The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas’s love letter to Black boys everywhere

Cobra Kai

Featured Stories TELEVISION

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3: What Went Wrong?

January 11, 2021January 12, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Cobra Kai, Johnny Lawrence, Martin Kove, Ralph Macchio, William Zabka

From ‘The Karate Kid’ to ‘Apocalypse Now’ in two easy steps

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