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Izenberg

Memories of the Baseball Borscht Belt

June 20, 2023June 21, 2023 Jon Hart 0 Comments Jerry Izenberg, Neil Simon, Philip Roth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Woody Allen

Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg’s memoir of growing up Jewish in Newark in the 1930s

Kundera

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Lessons From Milan Kundera

May 10, 2023May 10, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments A Kidnapped West, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Woody Allen

The Cold War is still with us in a HarperCollins reissue of essential essays by the Czech writer

Beau Is Afraid

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #101: ‘Beau Is Afraid,’ Woody Allen Shut Out of Cannes, and Defunding Libraries

April 24, 2023May 1, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Ari Aster, Beau Is Afraid, Cannes Film Festival, Coup de Chance, Joaquin Phoenix, Woody Allen

Our critics break down the culture, across the ideological spectrum

Coup de Chance

Malchance

April 19, 2023April 26, 2023 Michael Washburn 10 Comments Cannes Film Festival, Coup de Chance, Woody Allen

Cannes nixes Woody Allen’s widely anticipated 50th film

Zack Hample

‘Zack Hample vs. The World’

October 28, 2022October 29, 2022 Jon Hart 1 Comment Alex Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, Stu Hample, Woody Allen, Zack Hample

On the eve of the World Series, check out a YouTube documentary about the world’s greatest ballhawk

Zero Gravity

The Weight of ‘Zero Gravity’

June 27, 2022August 24, 2022 Michael Washburn 3 Comments Bernie Madoff, Dylan Farrow, Franz Kafka, Frederick Nietzsche, Woody Allen, Zero Gravity

Woody Allen’s new collection is too witty to be canceled

Rifkin's Festival

Wallace Shawn is Woody Allen in ‘Rifkin’s Festival’

February 3, 2022April 3, 2022 William Schwartz 4 Comments Elena Anaya, Gina Gershon, Louis Garrel, Rifkin's Festival, Wallace Shawn, Woody Allen

Somehow, Allen keeps making movies

censorship

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

American Publishing in Censorship Mode

May 7, 2021March 15, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Blake Bailey, Dav Pilkey, Dr. Seuss, Jonathan Karp, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Philip Roth, Simon & Schuster, W.W. Norton, Woody Allen

Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons

Allen v. Farrow

DOCUMENTARY FILM

One-Sided HBO Documentary Convicts Woody Allen

February 23, 2021March 15, 2022 Michael Washburn 7 Comments Allen v. Farrow, Amy Ziering, Dylan Farrow, Harvey Weinstein, Kirby Dick, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski, Ronan Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

Film about abuse charges doesn’t pretend to be impartial

Cancel Culture

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Cancel Culture: The Lit-World Year In Review

December 29, 2020January 4, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Abigail Shrier, American Dirt, Apropos Of Nothing, J.K. Rowling, Jeanne Cummins, Jordan Peterson, Joseph Epstein, Julie Burchill, Marisa Corvisiero, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency, Woody Allen

Most of 2020’s ‘canceled’ books are actually doing quite well, thank you

A Rainy Day In New York

Woody Allen Breaks Stunning New Ground in ‘A Rainy Day In New York’

November 27, 2020December 4, 2020 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment A Rainy Day In New York, Diego Luna, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Selena Gomez, Timothée Chalamet, Woody Allen

Just kidding, it’s the same old schtick

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Woody Allen’s Brilliant New Memoir is Actually Two Different Books

June 4, 2020August 18, 2022 Ken Kurson 11 Comments Alan Dershowitz, Alec Baldwin, Apropos Of Nothing, Diane Keaton, Greta Gerwig, Mia Farrow, Mira Sorvino, New York Times, Nick Apollo Forte, Ronan Farrow, Scarlett Johansson, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

A witty, self-deprecating showbiz reminiscence and a detailed, persuasive self-defense

Woody Allen

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The Woman Who Published Woody Allen’s New Memoir

March 24, 2020August 21, 2022 Neal Pollack 7 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Arcade Publishing, Jeanette Seaver, Woody Allen

An interview with Jeanette Seaver of Arcade Publishing

Censorship

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics Young Adult

The New Censorship

March 10, 2020March 13, 2020 Neal Pollack 3 Comments A Place for Wolves, Amélie Wen Zhao, American Dirt, Banned Books Week, Barnes and Noble, Blood Heir, Censorship, Hachette, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Kosoko Jackson, Milo Yiannopoulos, My Dark Vanessa, Ronan Farrow, Roxane Gay, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Woody Allen

Book bans are suddenly coming from inside the house

Hachette Woody Allen

NON-FICTION Politics

Hachette Cancels Woody Allen

March 9, 2020March 11, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Catch and Kill, Hachette, Ronan Farrow, Stephen King, Woody Allen

The decision to pull his memoir comes on the heels of Friday’s employee walk-out

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