Meryl Streep becomes her characters. She is an iguana and transforms into anything and everything, yet her performances still always have her notable style and stamp.
Today, our most celebrated actress, Meryl Streep, turns 63. Can it be possible? My own top-ten list below reflects what I believe are her best films. On her birthday, let's say: "Bravo, Meryl Streep."
Besides being an accomplished pediatrician, Chris Adrian was named one of the New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40″ fiction writers last summer, and is als...
There’s a passage in Don DeLillo’s Americana where he describes walking down a busy sidewalk among a throng of New Yorkers. He captured this feeli...
Last week, Tina Fey was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and over the weekend PBS aired the made-for-TV ceremony. Whi...
Our most anticipated fiction and nonfiction of fall. ...
I feel as if it's my personal mission to make over every dowdy author I see. I haven't quite learned how to do this tactfully, despite the strong temptation.
With the awarding of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2009/2010 literary award season is now over, which gives us the opportunity to...
I am one of your 51 percent. And, I am also your colleague. I want to see a reflection of myself on a screen just as much as I want to see my name in the credits.
if you like food, friendship, romance, sex, comedy, Paris or New York, you'll probably love Julie & Julia.
2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.
On the whole David Hare has written a fascinating and engrossing script, and Director Stephen Daldry has given us a taut and emotional filmmaking achievement.
