• ‘Vladimir’: A midlife obsession in dark academia

    ‘Vladimir’: A midlife obsession in dark academia

    “Vladimir” is a Netflix adaptation of Julia May Jonas’s 2022 pandemic-written debut novel of the same name. Looking at its saucy book cover—featuring the gold-chained neck and shirtless torso of a young white man wearing a dark green velour tracksuit—one immediately wonders how the series, later billed as an American television comedy-drama limited series, will…

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  • The 3 book adaptations that swept the Oscars’ Big Five

    The 3 book adaptations that swept the Oscars’ Big Five

    The “Big Five” Oscars—Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay—represent the Academy Awards’ most prestigious honors. Only three films have won all five in the same year. All three began as books.

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  • The king of horror is also a fairy tale architect

    The king of horror is also a fairy tale architect

    From our earliest days, we’re surrounded by fairy tales and storytelling. And while your mind might immediately go to Disney tales about Cinderella and Snow White, not all fairy tales are outdated, sanitized parables first told hundreds of years ago. They didn’t end with the Brothers Grimm.  In fact, one of the most adapted and…

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