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A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

Nick Ripatrazone Revisits the Work of a Wounded Heart

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 4, 2025

An Enigma Embodied: On Monica Vitti, Italy’s Muse of Incommunicability

An Enigma Embodied: On Monica Vitti, Italy’s Muse of Incommunicability

Joanna Biggs Considers the Role of Feminist Agency On and Off the Silver Screen

By Joanna Biggs | December 4, 2024

Echoes of Abuse: The Problematic Legacies of Harmful Male Celebrities

Echoes of Abuse: The Problematic Legacies of Harmful Male Celebrities

Joy Neumeyer on the Lingering Effects of the Soviet Union’s Rejection of Feminism

By Joy Neumeyer | August 23, 2024

How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater

How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater

Barrie Kreinik on Reviving a Queer Icon of the Roaring Twenties

By Barrie Kreinik | June 7, 2024

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Judi Dench and the Actor and Director Brendan O'Hea in Conversation from Their New Book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent"

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2024

How <em>On the Waterfront</em> Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon

How On the Waterfront Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon

David Thomson on the Rise of an Old Hollywood Leading Man

By David Thomson | February 7, 2023

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Listen to Chadwick Boseman read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

By Vanessa Willoughby | November 29, 2021

The Role That Got Away: Hayley Mills on (Almost) Playing Lolita

By Hayley Mills | September 7, 2021

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Not Sure If Your Dialogue Is Any Good? Get an Actor to Perform It

Calvin Kasulke on Finding a Good Reason to Write Good Characters

By Calvin Kasulke | August 31, 2021

Danny Trejo on Doing Time with Charles Manson and Finding Freedom in the Boxing Room

Danny Trejo on Doing Time with Charles Manson and Finding Freedom in the Boxing Room

One of America’s Great Character Actors Looks Back at His Time in Prison

By Danny Trejo with Donal Logue | July 9, 2021

Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

In Conversation About Byrne's Memoir Walking with Ghosts

By Karl Geary | January 13, 2021

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

David Lazar on Two Wounded Men Who Frustrated Expectations

By David Lazar | November 9, 2020

Writerly Lessons From an Early '90s Improv Class

Writerly Lessons From an Early '90s Improv Class

Joanna Hershon on What Theater Taught Her About Scene,
Character, and Rejection

By Joanna Hershon | April 27, 2020

The Harry Belafonte archive finds a home in Harlem's Schomburg Center.

The Harry Belafonte archive finds a home in Harlem's Schomburg Center.

By Aaron Robertson | March 19, 2020

An Ode to Women Who Walk, <br>From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

An Ode to Women Who Walk,
From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

From Lizzy Stewart's Graphic Meditation on Contemporary Life

By Lizzy Stewart | November 21, 2019