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‘Rocky’ at 50: ‘Going The Distance’ Chronicles the Making of a Classic Movie

November 10, 2026November 9, 2026 Jon Hart 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Academy Awards, Adrian Balboa, Apollo Creed, Bette Midler, Bill Conti, book reviews, boxing history, boxing movies, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Chuck Wepner, classic Hollywood, Clay Felker, film books, film criticism, film production, Going the Distance, Going the Distance: Stallone Philly and the Story of Rocky, hollywood history, I Play Rocky, independent filmmaking, inspirational movies, Irwin Winkler, Jimmy Gambina, John G. Avildsen, Ken Norton, Los Angeles Sports Arena, low-budget movies, making of Rocky, Mike Sielski, movie nostalgia, Muhammad Ali, nonfiction books, Olympic Auditorium, Oscar-winning movies, Paradise Alley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia cinema, Ray Bradbury, Robert Chartoff, Rocky, Rocky 50th anniversary, Rocky Balboa, Rocky behind the scenes, Rocky film history, Rocky movie, Rocky Steps, Santa Monica, sports biography, sports cinema, sports movies, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, The Lords of Flatbush, The Spectrum, The Steps: A Memoir, underdog stories, United Artists

Philadelphia’s own Mike Sielski goes deep into the roots of Sylvester Stallone’s low-budget masterpiece

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What Was Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret?

November 6, 2026November 8, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Academy Awards, acting and performance, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock biography, Alfred Hitchcock movies, auteur cinema, auteur theory, book reviews, Cary Grant, casting directors, cinema history, cinematic suspense, classic cinema, classic Hollywood, Family Plot, Film Adaptations, film analysis, film books, film casting, film criticism, film history, film studies, filmmaking techniques, Francois Truffaut, Golden Age of Hollywood, Hitchcock and Truffaut, Hitchcock casting, Hitchcock films, Hitchcock Truffaut interviews, Hollywood casting, hollywood history, Hollywood stardom, James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, movie stars, Nat Segaloff, nonfiction books, North By Northwest, psychological thrillers, Rope, screen charisma, star power, suspense films, Suspicion, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Secret Hitchcock, The Short Night, thriller movies, university press of kentucky, Vertigo, World War II

New book argues that the famed director’s casting is given short shrift

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‘Hotel & Farm’ Is Half Hotel, Half Farm, All Nonsense

November 3, 2026November 3, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments absurdist fiction, absurdist humor, agriculture, alternative comics, Ben Katchor, book reviews, bureaucracy, comic books, comic strips, comics, consumer culture, contemporary comics, cultural satire, deadpan humor, encyclopedic fiction, experimental comics, experimental storytelling, farming, food culture, fragmented narratives, fruit criticism, Gilbert Silo, graphic novel criticism, graphic novel reviews, graphic novels, Hotel & Farm, hotel culture, illustrated fiction, Jug Oar, literary comics, literary experimentation, new graphic novels, newspaper comics, non sequiturs, nonsensical humor, Pantheon Books, rural life, Seemor Hotel, sequential art, social satire, surreal humor, surrealist comics, unconventional narratives, urban life, visual satire, visual storytelling, worldbuilding, Yalos Finger

New graphic novel from Ben Katchor provides a powerful test of patience

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments A Glacier's Guide to Dying, Alex Pappademas, architecture, best new books, book recommendations, book roundup, books to read, Broadway history, Broadway in Black and White, contemporary fiction, crime fiction, Daisy Johnson, Department of Fate, Eve Sneider, Friends of the Devil, Gary Shteyngart, Grateful Dead, Guilty Pleasure, How to Be Less Useful, Ian Rankin, Janet Malcolm, Joan LeMay, John Mauceri, John McWhorter, John Scalzi, Journalism, LeVar Burton, literary biography, literary fiction, Long Wave, Louise Kennedy, Matt O'Hara, memoirs, Michelle Porter, Monsters of Ohio, music history, mystery thrillers, new books November 2026, nonfiction books, November 2026 books, November book releases, Patricia Nilsson, Paul Goldberger, personal essays, political nonfiction, Priyanka Mattoo, Rachel Maddow, science fiction, science history, Stations, Take My Word for It, The Absent Woman, The Flying Death, The Heights, The Imperfect City, The Sensualist, Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts, urban planning

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

Nine Spooky Books To Celebrate Halloween

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Taste for Murder, Appalachian horror, Atria Books, Berkley Books, best Halloween books, Blood Is Dripping onto the Courtyard, body horror, book recommendations, book roundups, Brian Evenson, Christina MacSweeney, Coffee House Press, cozy mysteries, Crooked Lane Books, Death Writ Large, Del Rey, Elvira Navarro, fantasy romance, gothic fiction, Guilty by Definition, Halloween 2026, Halloween books, Halloween reading list, horror books, horror fiction, Katherine Daniel, Last Days, literary horror, Martha Waters, Matt Baker, Mexican Gothic, murder mysteries, Natasha Lennard, new book releases, On Un/Certainty, paranormal romance, Phantom Limb, political nonfiction, psychological horror, Sarah Langan, Sarah Rose Etter, short story collections, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Sourcebooks Landmark, Spellstruck, spooky reads, spooky season, Stephen King, Susie Dent, The Intrigue, The Regency Vows, Trad Wife, translated fiction, Two Lines Press, Verso Books, When the Night Comes Knocking

Monsters, magic, and scary politicians for your frightfest weekend

‘Funny Business,’ Sad comedy scene

October 26, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments 2000s comedy movies, 2010s comedy movies, Adam McKay, Anchorman, Animal House, Ben Stiller, Bobby Farrelly, Book Review, comedy box office, comedy history, Farrelly brothers, film criticism, Frat Pack, Funny Business, Funny Business book, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Hollywood comedy, hollywood history, improvisational comedy, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Matt Singer, National Lampoon, Netflix, nonfiction book review, Opposable Thumbs, Owen Wilson, Paul Feig, Peter Farrelly, R-rated comedies, raunchy comedy, Saturday Night Live, Scary Movie, ScreenCrush, Seth Rogen, Siskel and Ebert, Steve Carell, streaming entertainment, studio comedies, Talladega Nights, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ben Stiller Show, The Hangover, The Invite, The Studio, theatrical comedy, There's Something About Mary, This Is the End, Todd Phillips, Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers, Will Ferrell

Matt Singer’s new book will make you reconsider 2000s R-rated comedies

Nine Books on Immigration

October 18, 2026October 15, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Afghan women poets, Afghanistan, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Andreas Kossert, Axis of Empire, book recommendations, books about immigration, Death of the Soccer God, Dimitry Elias Léger, Hair on Fire, Haiti, Hamdullah Mohib, historical fiction, How to Close a Camp, immigrant detention, immigrant experiences, immigrant memoirs, immigration history, Immigration literature, immigration policy, Iran, John Washington, Katya Suvorova, memoir, new books 2026, Nghiem Tran, Nonfiction, Our Hours Are Married to Shadow, Poetry, queer literature, Rafael Osío Cabrices, refugee stories, Shadows over Kabul, Tam Hussein, The Uprooted, Twilight in Venezuela, Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, Venezuela, Vietnamese American poetry, World Cup 2026

From the politics of imprisonment to the wonders and tragedies of being forced to leave home

L’Affaire Nora Pours Acid Into France’s Fissures

October 8, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Boualem Sansal, Censorship, Éditions Grasset, Editis, France, free speech, French literature, French politics, French publishing, Hachette, intellectual freedom, Jordan Bardella, Le Monde, Livres Hebdo, Michel Houellebecq, Olivier Nora, publishing industry, Régis Debray, Vincent Bolloré

A high-profile publisher’s latest move occurs against a backdrop of deep divisions in contemporary France

‘Defying Tyrants’ Asks What is Christian Nationalism Anyway?

October 8, 2026October 7, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments #MAGA, anti-Caesar, antichrist, antichrists, Broadleaf Books, Christian history, Christian nationalism, Christianity, church and state, Constantine, Defying Tyrants, Donald Trump, Jesus, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Matthew D. Taylor, politics, religion, Roman Empire, theology

Matthew D. Taylor’s new book blames the antichrists (sic)

Do You Have the ‘Will and Attention’ To Escape the Bottle?

October 6, 2026October 7, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments addiction memoir, AI, alcoholism, Arthur Schopenhauer, artificial intelligence, attention, Catholicism, Christianity, Dante, Dodge in Hell, Doubleday, evangelicalism, faith, Fall; or, God Human Animal Machine, Gravity and Grace, Meghan O’Gieblyn, memoir, Neal Stephenson, philosophy, recovery, relapse, religion, René Descartes, Simone Weil, Singularity, Søren Kierkegaard, Spirituality, technology, Will and Attention, willpower

Meghan O’Gieblyn’s new memoir faces up to faith, addiction, and techno-skepticism armed mainly with a spiritual World War II philosopher

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Readers’ 14: October Books We’re Excited To Read

October 2, 2026October 5, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Adam Grant, Annalee Newitz, Audrey Niffenegger, Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, Book Preview, books, Broadleaf Books, Chad Harbach, Custom House, Doubleday, Ecco, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Franny Choi, Hanover Square Press, Harper, James Marriott, Julie Orringer, Knopf, literary fiction, Little Brown, Matthew D. Taylor, Meghan O’Gieblyn, memoir, Michael Lewis, most anticipated books, Nonfiction, October Books, Sarah Perry, science fiction, Scribner, Tor Books, Viking, W.W. Norton, Yiyun Li

Barbara Kingsolver returns, Chad Harbach finally publishes his long-awaited second novel, Michael Lewis investigates DOGE, Bonnie Garmus heads to 1980s publishing, Adam Grant explores loneliness and more

Can Ayad Akhtar Find Out the Identity of Ayad Akhtar from ‘The Radiance’?

September 29, 2026August 23, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments American Dervish, autofiction, Ayad Akhtar, Book Review, brain injury, consciousness, Disgraced, Homeland Elegies, identity, literary fiction, Lucie Neroponte, Pakistani American writers, psychological fiction, The Radiance, Trauma

Pulitzer prize-winner’s new novel continues his auto-fictional exploration

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Will America Find Japan’s Bestselling Novelist Through ‘Stray Dogs’?

September 27, 2026October 1, 2026 J. Barnes 1 Comment anime, autofiction, Bungo Stray Dogs, Christianity, coming of age, depression, diary novel, Donald Keene, Japanese literature, Justice with a Smile, Kabuki, Kafka Asagiri, literary fiction, manga, Michael Day, No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai, suicide, The Final Years, The Real Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, translated fiction, Tuttle Publishing, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

A new translation of Osamu Dazai’s ‘Justice with a Smile’ is part of a wave of his work appearing in the West

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Carla Baratta: The BFG Interview

September 24, 2026September 30, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Adelita, Book and Film Globe, Carla Baratta, Carlos Moreno, Colombian television, Fernanda del Carpio, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, Latin American cinema, Laura Mora, Laura Taylor, Macondo, magical realism, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Mayans M.C., Netflix, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sons of Anarchy, Venezuelan actress

The Venezuelan model turned star of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ talks Macondo

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‘Exit Party’ Provides Parties but Surprisingly Little Exit

September 18, 2026September 22, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments alternate reality, Canadian fiction, dystopian fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party, literary fiction, Lucas Alkaitis, multiverse, parallel worlds, post-apocalyptic fiction, Sea of Tranquility, speculative fiction, Station Eleven, The Swan Dive

Emily St. John Mandel is back with a novel of parallel worlds

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