Is it any surprise that Nicholas Cage has committed to directing and starring in a film adaptation of Rape: A Love Story, one of the darker of Joyce Carol Oates’s dark novels?… Read more »

Yesterday, the New York Stock Exchange, The Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines all went on the fritz at roughly the same time. But there was an even more important… Read more »

Acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut book, Interpreter Of Maladies, was an absolute barnstormer. A collection of short stories that often focused on the tension between Indian and American culture, it won both… Read more »

For any of you who clicked this headline expecting a ripoff of Mallory Ortberg’s brilliant series on medieval monks, prepare to be disappointed. But for everyone else who finds anachronisms… Read more »

The Real Academia Española is the institution responsible for determining what is and isn’t acceptable in Spanish, and as such, one of its duties is updating the official dictionary. This… Read more »

Kids are a drag. They drag down the intellectual level of every conversation they enter, and—worst of all—they drag down the quality of movies you can watch. Pixar Animation Studios… Read more »

Scott Rudin continues to buy film rights to all of the books, even when they aren’t books yet. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Rudin has bought film rights to… Read more »

Eric Obenauf, publisher of Columbus, Ohio based independent publisher Two Dollar Radio, has recently announced the company’s plans to launch a film division called Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures. Obenauf,… Read more »