Viskningar och rop , Sweden, 92 minutes Director/writer: Ingmar Bergman Photography: Sven Nykvist Music: Frederic Chopin, Johann Sebastian B...

I’ve read a few Graham Greene novels along the way and thought I knew what I was in for with this highly rated one. But it was a disappointm...

Fitz-James O’Brien was among the earliest writers of horror stories but died in the US Civil War at the age of 34 and didn’t leave many stor...

There are a number of things about On Becoming a Guinea Fowl that I’m not sure I understand, notably the title and some of the details in t...

This long story by J.D. Salinger was packaged in 1963 with another long piece, “Seymour, an Introduction,” for the last book he published. W...

I recently recharged the love side of my love/hate relationship with the Seattle Mariners. Having followed them closely for weeks and months...

Emily Nussbaum won a Pulitzer in 2016 for her TV reviews in the New Yorker . This roundup of her stuff—including feature profiles and one or...

Timbuk3 was a husband and wife act straight outta Madison, Wisconsin—Pat and Barbara K. MacDonald—augmented by a drum machine for the pseudo...

La pianiste , France / Austria / Germany, 131 minutes Director: Michael Haneke Writers: Michael Haneke, Elfriede Jelinek Photography: Christ...

[spoilers] This Robert Bloch story, according to editor David G. Hartwell of the Dark Descent anthology, is arguably his best, which is a p...