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Hollywood Writers and Studios to Restart Talks After 3-Month Standoff
A strike by writers and actors has caused nearly a complete production shutdown of scripted entertainment.
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Arts
In ‘The Lesson,’ It’s a Bad Writer Who Steals
Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack star as writers with similar source material in a feature tracing the limits of…
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News
Can the Writers’ Strike Fix Hollywood?
Here’s my attempt to summarize the context of the Hollywood writers’ strike in three sentences. First, the entertainment business, floated…
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News
Maggie Smith Tries to Make the Divorce Memoir Beautiful
Her new book, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” is an exploration of what happened to her marriage after she…
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How Can China’s People Demand Freedom if We Can’t Even Say It?
One morning last November, I woke up to a stirring sight: video clips of young protesters in several Chinese cities…
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Books
Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’
Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world…
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World
The Transgressive Power of Alba de Céspedes
Rome, 1950: The diary begins innocently enough, with the name of its owner, Valeria Cossati, written in a neat script.…
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News
Three Ways to Read Trump
When journalists write books on the presidency of Donald Trump, they tend to choose one of three options. They write…
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