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Romantic comedies tend to reflect their eras' attitudes toward women and relationships. What do new works in the genre have to tell us about sex and love today?
In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters' pre-meet-cute pasts"and all the attendant emotional baggage.
He called. She answered. He was her only sibling. He'd paid to have someone deliver her citrus so that she could avoid scurvy.
The writer recommends four books about the nuances of family life.
In "The Enchanted April," by Elizabeth von Arnim, four Englishwomen are transformed by a temporary loss of self.
The singer on his memoir, "Surrender," which deals with the early loss of his mother, finding religion in music, and navigating the Troubles while in a rock band from Dublin.
"After my father stopped breathing, God bless his memory, I covered his body up in blankets"and kept studying."
The author on the New Yorker story that inspired her story "The Silence."
The author on the New Yorker story that inspired her story "The Comedian."
Central Park's beloved open-air stage has had some work done (eighty-five million dollars' worth). Streep and Pacino may have moved on, but the raccoons stuck around.
The "Real Pain" director teamed up with the TV writer Meredith Scardino to compete in the 24 Hour Musicals, for charity. Their muse? A West Elm lamp.
Touted in our first issue: a love-crazed soldier, scheming septuagenarians, an Anglo-French chastity plot, and a suspected nymphomaniac with a taste for fast cars.
In her new film, the actor, writer, and director charts the nonlinear course of a young woman's recovery from assault.
The writer Stephanie Burt discusses her new anthology of L.G.B.T.Q. poetry.
We've worshipped divinely talented but demanding women for centuries. In an era of careful language and online backlash, is there still room for the diva?
Jordan Tannahill's explicit new play fetishizes the British Royal Family but has more than sex on its mind.
The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events"but it lacks the anything-goes energy of the era in which it's set.
Pygmalion's visceral rendition of the B-Minor Mass.
The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in "The Life of Chuck." At MoMath, he studied fractals and rode a square-wheeled tricycle.
Getting Hugh home after his hip replacement involved a thick cushion and a car with legroom. "Ow!" he said whenever I tried to help. "You're making everything worse!"
The author discusses his story "Happy Days."
Why shouldn't Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations.
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In dark times, many novelists, poets, and performers turn to their work to process and express what they're feeling. What do these texts born of tragedy offer their audience?
