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Who Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’? It’s No Mystery
“Mank,” the new drama from David Fincher, revives an old charge against Orson Welles. Was Welles, who with “Citizen Kane” (1941) created what is often…
The Rich, Literary Life of the Creator of America’s Favorite Girl Spy
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIEThe Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of ‘Harriet the Spy’By Leslie Brody How would the universe address you,…
New Book Returns to an Irresistible Theme: the Harvard Murder
A young archaeology graduate student at Harvard is bludgeoned to death by the professor with whom she’s having an affair. The murder weapon is a…
What Bryan Washington Is Cooking
When describing his new book, “Memorial,” Bryan Washington has called it a gay slacker dramedy, a lowercase love story and a novel about the creases…
Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey
In his memoir, “Greenlights,” the star of “Dazed and Confused” and “Dallas Buyers Club” shares lessons from a life in which he turned out all…
Star Wars Writer Teases A Huge New Film Project
Gary Whitta, the co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Season 1 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, is working on something new, and…
The World of Books Braces for a Newly Ominous Future
The public health crisis and the resulting economic fallout have hit at a moment of relative calm and strength for the industry, after a period…
Tyler Perry Encouraged by Jude Apatow to Have a Writer’s Room After Admitting He Doesn’t Have One
The ‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman’ star is told by his fellow Hollywood filmmaker to consider hiring a team of writers for his plays,…
Considering Darryl Pinckney and Authenticity
This week, Lauretta Charlton reviews Darryl Pinckney’s collection of essays “Busted in New York.” In 1992, Edmund White wrote for the Book Review about “High…