[ Netflix’s new limited series, A Man in Full, is based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel of the same name, and a powerful filmmaking team worked to bring the late author’s work to life. Regina King serves as executive producer and directed several episodes, while David E. Kelley of Big Little Lies fame is showrunner, … Read more
[ The Idea of You was one of the year’s most highly anticipated films. So when it finally arrived on May 2, there was always bound to be discourse about every little detail, from Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway’s magnetic chemistry and the One Direction comparisons to how much the film stays faithful to the … Read more
[ Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, HBO’s The Sympathizer tells the story of a Vietnamese spy who moves to America after the war. But if you’re expecting a straightforward spy thriller, you may be in for a surprise. The 2015 novel is told in the form of the … Read more
[ After the sheer excitement of Bridgerton Season 2 and the spinoff Queen Charlotte, fans are eager to see the next installment of the Netflix series. Fortunately, this isn’t one of those “will Netflix renew my favorite TV show or give it the ax” situations because more Bridgerton is almost upon us. Given how Season … Read more
[ Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones is based on Georgia Hunter’s 2017 book of the same name, and it’s rooted in her real-life family history about surviving the Holocaust. As Hunter explains in the book, her grandfather didn’t talk much about his experience during World War II. However, she learned pieces of his past … Read more
[ This fashion week has been one for the books. Designer Anna Sui staged a show in the famed rare books room of the Strand to debut her fall 2024 collection, which was inspired by the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple and the first editions of Virginia Woolf. Across town, supermodels like Emily Ratajkowski, Irina … Read more
[ While Kiley Reid was working as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, her students would use a certain turn of phrase that she just couldn’t shake. “If I said, ‘OK, say more on that,’ they would get kind of embarrassed and go, ‘Oh, my gosh, I hate telling about this,’” says the … Read more
[ If I have one consistent rule as a reader, it’s that when I travel, whether it’s to a small town a couple hours away or a city on the other side of the globe, I will check out as many local independent bookstores as I can find. Each one is uniquely indicative of the … Read more
[ “The problem with being a wife is being a wife,” writes Carmela Ciuraru in The Lives of Wives, her recent book about five literary marriages. The role has historically been unglamorous, she continues, requiring women to play the part of “chattel, cook, housekeeper, and nursemaid,” while enduring the type of struggles you’d expect when … Read more
[ Writers will often divide themselves between two categories: plotters, who meticulously outline every beat; and pantsers, who sit down to write and see where their imagination takes them. For a long time, Alex Michaelides was squarely in the former camp. “I’m usually very, very controlled. I plan everything,” he tells Bustle. With his latest … Read more
