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“Unadaptable” is a word that gets attached to a lot of books, and usually for good reason. For most books—pretty…

With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading…

We are not in a golden age of film critics looking back on their long careers and summing up what they’ve learned.…

Stephen King is one of the most frequently adapted authors of all time, with a staggering 199 credits to his name on …

With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading…

Halloween is the only holiday associated with horror, but no one dreads it out of fear. Outside of the movies that…

You can identify a Mark Z. Danielewski book from a single page—no need to even read it. Since the start of his…

Mel Brooks’ reputation rests on a fragile precipice. He built a career pioneering, popularizing, and perfecting two…

It isn’t surprising that Peter Pan has lasted for more than 100 years, or that each generation gets a new version of…

In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one…

“If you read the script, and you read my book, it’s just three sentences. That’s the idiot I am. I missed it, he…

Amid a presidential campaign of stupefying banality, where candidates compete to say the emptiest sentiment in the…

There was little in Wet Hot American Summer to suggest it should be resurrected. Here was a self-contained movie…

Steve Martin has been a part of pop culture for so long, and a force in so many mediums, that the best way into his…

Something unexpected happened between the publication of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon in 1981 and Brett Ratner’s 2002…

Who are the people who shape a country? How much of their influence is planned or controllable, and how much…

Unlike Stephen King’s 2000 book of the same title, Charles Bukowski’s On Writing is less concerned with the art of…

Has there ever been a novel as good as Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird that was turned into a movie as good as…

Some time ago, Aziz Ansari met a woman he liked and drove himself crazy when a post-make-out text message went…

The Japanese word for “husband” is shujin, which literally translates to something akin to “master of the house.” Shu…