Jona Bechtolt

A documentary called "The Reason I Jump" is a stirring new addition to the movie genre--best exemplified by "The Miracle Worker"--about disabled people who can't express what they're…

David Rieff discusses “Divorcing” by Susan Taubes: the reimagined end of an autobiographical marriage.

Clay Tweel’s HBO Max documentary on the New Age “cult of cults” that claimed dozens of lives raises powerful questions about the checkered histories of various religions.

This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with writer and professor David Mikics whose newest book is ‘Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker.”

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

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

Jen Craig discusses writing “Panthers and the Museum of Fire,” a short and expansive book that feels immense, rich and complex.

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

Writer-director Eugene Ashe’s new take on an old-fashioned love story.