Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time
- Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
This adaptation dials down the political intrigue and ramps up the action.
Sumptuous cakes provide ample distraction from the weak script.
Dance is one of many ways in which The Life of Chuck celebrates the ordinary.
The film transposes Bram Stoker’s Dracula to 1970s New England.
This murder on the Nantucket sound is not as brilliant as it hopes to be.
These books had our academics gripped until their final pages.
The series cuts between Cary Grant’s humble English beginnings and later Hollywood success.
The third book to feature the eponymous detective is a whydunnit not a whodunnit.
Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.
The late American writer was drawn towards death and apocalypse, tet to read his work is also to be exhilarated and enlightened.
Bringing colour and emotional depth, Baunbach’s adaptation is a good companion to DeLillo’s searing novel.
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road in 2006, shows him at the peak of his powers even as he nears his ninetieth year.
Fifty years after the original film, three generations of Shaft are loose on the streets of New York.
Peele’s films reflect the way many African-American directors have used the horror genre to reflect the black experience.
McQueen’s choice of genre raised eyebrows in the movie establishment, but similar ideas run through all his films.
Just about everyone knows whodunnit. But there are other reasons to see a movie than just the plot.
From the good to the bad, to the downright scary.
George Saunders has become the second American to win the Man Booker.
Playwright, screenwriter, actor: Shepard’s body of work gave new form to American masculinity.
Henry David Thoreau might appear to be very ill-adapted for the modern West – but his writing contains some striking lessons for the modern world.
As the film descends into intoxication, viewers are likely to be sobered by glimpses of a badly damaged America.
Baking offers some interesting insights into the state of the modern world.
Countering the Republican nominee’s favourite movies, here are five that he might learn something from.
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