His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Annie Lennox on Her Favorite Books and Her New Visual Memoir
Why? Curiosity, “general impatience and all-around quirkiness.” Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.
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Book Review: ‘What’s With Baum?,’ by Woody Allen
In “What’s With Baum?,” an anxious, jealous and thrice-married writer finds himself stranded in a culture that wants more “schmaltz,” less “wisdom.”
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What Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers.
The writer-director made hit after hit movie, until he didn’t. But he doesn’t let it get him down.
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Henry David Thoreau Impersonator Says Farewell to Walden Pond
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
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Henry David Thoreau Impersonator Says Farewell to Walden Pond
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
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Stephanie Burt on Taylor Swift and Her Favorite Books
She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift.”
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‘The Paper’ Is Hollywood’s Latest Take on Journalism
Sometimes, journalists are heroes onscreen. Other times, they can’t help but fall in love.
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Steve Hayden, Writer Behind Apple’s ’1984’ Commercial, Dies at 78
The ad for the Macintosh computer — which ran just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made.
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A Novelist Asks: Am I Bob Dylan’s Son?
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
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Exploring Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall
The county in southern England was where the British writer, known for her psychological mysteries and romantic novels, found herself ‘as a writer and as a person.’