‘Normal People’ Is The Prestige Show Teen Romance Fans Deserve
The Sally Rooney phenomenon has finally arrived on the small screen. By the time her second novel, “Normal People,” came out last year, the Irish novelist had already been deemed…
‘Black Mirror’s’ ‘Striking Vipers’ And The Downlow Narrative
The trailer for “Striking Vipers,” one of three new episodes in Netflix’s creepy anthology series “Black Mirror,” is just vague enough. We see a suburban, upper-middle class black couple with…
Barry Jenkins Is Speechless Over Video Blending ‘Beale Street’ Score With 1898 Film
Barry Jenkins said he was at a loss for words after someone combined the score from his new film “If Beale Street Could Talk” with a newly uncovered silent 1898…
My Complicated Affair Reading Philip Roth
Like so many early adolescents in the latter half of the American Century, I hid under the bedspread with that canary-yellow paperback of famous self-gratification. The first copy of Portnoy’s…