Dustin Downing

Flawlessly acted by Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck and Jason Segel, and beautifully directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, this movie about friendship and cancer--in that order--is funny…

Writer-director Aaron Sorkin on writing up to the edge of melodrama.

Bryan Fogel won Netflix its first feature documentary Oscar with his Russian doping exposé “Icarus.”

This week’s picks include an artist who creates playful and graphic airbrushed paintings with darker undertones; women who are depicted pumping breast milk while listing their fears;…

George C. Wolfe on power dynamics in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

Those who read to write will want to hear Eileen Myles talk about “For Now,” which is part of the "Why I Write" series from Yale University Press.

The pandemic pummeled production. WarnerMedia started a war with its windows-shattering sneak attack. And Quibi, we hardly knew you.

Venerated critic Harold Bloom’s final book “Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death” is discussed by the poets Alan Felsenthal and…

Garth Greenwell discusses seeking human truths by writing into an abyss, and his new novel Cleanness .