The works of William Shakespeare have inspired countless performances and interpretations over the centuries, but some films show their Shakepearean roots more clearly than others. The challenge here is to...
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Satisfies the seasonal need for scary, starting off strong with an introduction by its editor, the filmmaker Jordan Peele. The rest of the table of contents is a veritable who’s...
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Book title: Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery Author: Edited by Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering Hex Life is a collection of chillingly dark short stories on witches and...
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A rudderless nation, lost in uncertainty, searches for its next commander in chief. There’s an uneasy sense that the country’s glory days have passed, and that a monumental turn in...
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New Deal Rebels, a new anthology published by the American Institute for Economic Research, is an antidote to the idea that there ever was a consensus behind President Franklin D....
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For decades now, Sebastian Junger has taken readers to some of the most dangerous, bloody and remote outposts on this planet, including the deep sea (“The Perfect Storm”) and Afghanistan...
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Townhouse on the Green opens one of the city’s best addresses to guests — with brash new restaurant Floritz on the first floor Cosy and close to the action -...
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eOne/Macro Oakland’s freaky side emerges in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s ambitious yet tonally uneven new anthology film Freaky Tales starring Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, Ben Medelsohn, Jack Champion, Ji-Young...
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‘John Carpenter Suburban Screams’ Gabriel Kuchta/PEACOCK A quick and partial mea culpa to Amazon’s Lore, Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries reboot and several other semi-recent spooky, based-on-fact anthology series to which I...
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In 1993, after dial-up but before smartphones, the cartoonist Peter Steiner published a drawing in the New Yorker that would come to define the early years of life online. In...
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