A Week in Culture: Chris Weitz, Director
Photograph by Summit Entertainment. DAY ONE, KIND OF The first thing that occurs to me at the beginning of my cultural week is a question about criteria. What qualifies? If you read—or, as I did,...
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Being the last man on Earth. From In the Mouth of Madness, 1981. On a recent Sunday evening, trying to relax, I turned on the television and saw an ad for a new comedy series called The Last Man on...
View ArticleByron the Bloodsucker, and Other News
Detail from a hand-colored engraving of Villa Diodati, by Edward Francis Finden, ca. 1833, after a drawing by William Purser. Jonathan Franzen gave his first interview about his new novel Purity...
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We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! From In the Mouth of Madness, 1981. Being the last man on Earth. On a...
View ArticleSomething in the Blood, Part 1
To celebrate the spookiest of holidays, we’re publishing a selection of excerpts from David J. Skal’s Something in the Blood, a biography of Bram Stoker, published this month by Liveright. First up:...
View ArticleScenes Dealing with Walking Dead, Torture, Vampires
In midtwentieth-century America, the appetite for comics was astounding. As many as a hundred million books were sold each month. Whereas the comics of the forties starred talking animals and...
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