Tag: Writing and Writers
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Illeana Douglas Looks Back on Hollywood’s Biggest ‘Cat Fight’
After publishing a book about the 1939 classic “The Women,” the actress and writer talks about her film career and her role in #MeToo.
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Martin McDonagh Says Art Can Change the World. Just Not as Much as Murder.
The writer-director, known for his dark and bleak work, believes in film’s power to change our lives.
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Bob Woodward Criticizes Jeff Bezos in New Memoir
Six takeaways from a new memoir by Mr. Woodward, the star Washington Post reporter, including his disappointment with the newspaper’s billionaire owner.
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Ellie Kemper: Nora Ephron Wrote to Amuse Herself
The actress and comedian riffs on the essay Nora Ephron wrote for The Times in 2008.
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Why Anne Carson, the New Nobel Laureate, Is the Easiest Difficult Poet
Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.
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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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‘The Twilight Zone’ Created a Blueprint for Surviving Our Surreal Moment
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
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His Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test.
“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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A New Play in Budapest Signals a Cultural Reawakening for Hungary
A one-woman show about the perils of authoritarianism draws on a memoir by the Hungarian-American writer Kati Marton. Under Viktor Orban’s government, it might not have happened.