Theme Essay by Lorraine Berry
The writer in me wants Boo’s nuanced journalism to trounce Boyle’s Hollywood portrayal of the Mumbai slums.
Screen Time
Why Did a Manipulative Movie Make Me Cry?
Nov 05, 2012
Why Horror Movies Disappoint Readers
Nov 02, 2012
Theme Essay by KC Redding-Gonzalez
The private experience of horror is intensely personal. It taps my memories; it raises my ghosts.
Jo Miller: “A Four-Foot-Tall Fran Lebowitz”
Oct 15, 2012
TW Interview by Lorraine Berry
A thousand of your competitors are writing about life in New York. Who's competing with you to write about life in your town?
"The Words": Lit With a Capital L
Sep 28, 2012
Film Review by Martha Nichols
In the movie's most satirical scene, an agent says to a downcast young writer, 'This book…it’s so interior.'
Shouting Outside the Halls of Art
Jun 01, 2012
TW Opinion by Andrew Vanden Bossche
Metroid is as obtuse as a silent film, crude as a pictogram, an endless winding maze without a human soul.
Films Convey Reality Better than Words
May 07, 2012
Theme Essay by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider
In unscripted documentaries, like ours, directors enter environments over which they have no control.
John Green’s “Tour de Nerdfighters”
Apr 02, 2012
Theme Essay by Karen Ohlson
Despite being adults, John and Hank Green recognize and salute all aspects of teenage nerdiness.
Errol Morris Takes on the Tabloids
Oct 14, 2011
Film Review by Fran Cronin
As McKinney herself says, 'If you tell a lie enough times, you come to believe it.'
Steve Meretzky: “Linearity is Fairly Overrated”
May 09, 2011
TW Interview by Andrew Vanden Bossche
Graphics fade fast, but good writing never stops shining."
I Do Believe in Literature
Mar 07, 2011
Theme Essay by Jeff Maehre
Literature needs to fill its own niche as doggedly as possible.
