From our 21st-century perch, most contemporary women have no trouble believing that the great women writers of the 19th century got a raw deal. The first four of Jane Austen’s novels were originally published anonymously—writing was no job for a lady. The... See more
THE MARK OF A GREAT, TOUGH BOOK MAY NOT be how many literature classes it's taught in but how many film or TV adaptations you can drape on its branches without breaking them. Dramatizations are tricky business: no film-viewing experience can match the way... See more
If you’re like most people, you probably freeze when someone asks you what you think is the best movie of all time. What if you give a confident answer, only to wake up in the middle of the night, certain you should have said something else? And do you ch... See more
Before there were memes, there was graffiti, and in the 1980s and ’90s you’d sometimes see the anagram “Elvis Lives” scrawled in spray paint around this or that city or town. It was a furtive declaration with an unclear meaning. Was it a reference to the ... See more
Some actors melt into their roles, or at least attempt to do so, wrapping themselves in a cloak of anonymity as they slip into a character. But Robert Duvall, who died on Feb. 15 at age 95, didn’t—not quite. He was too much of a presence for that: From th... See more
