There is a growing literature of maternal flight: novels about women who leave not just their husbands but also the children they have made. In the real world, men are the more frequent deserters; the connection of the father to family life is seen as contingent, while motherhood is revered as an intrinsic state. This…
From mega-hit franchises to a destructive drug addict to a cowgirl whose husband is hiding a secret love affair, Anne Hathaway has been one of Hollywood’s most versatile leading women for more than 25 years. With the Oscar winner reuniting with Christopher Nolan as Penelope in “The Odyssey,” the highest-profile stop in a landmark 2026…
Older actresses aren’t bankable? The blockbuster era for traditional comedies is over, with streaming having siphoned away the audience? Meryl Streep, 76, stepped back into Miranda Priestly’s sky-high heels over the weekend and demolished those Hollywood orthodoxies. “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” an old-fashioned workplace comedy, collected roughly $77 million at theaters in North America…
She has never believed that the labelled sketch by Holbein actually shows Boleyn because, over the years, questions have arisen regarding certain details such as: the sitter’s informal dress, the name being inscribed in an 18th Century hand (long after Boleyn’s death), and the light-coloured hair and full chin, when there are references to her…
SMALL TOWN GIRLS: A Writer’s Memoir, By Jayne Anne Phillips Most fiction writers have given so much of their own experiences to their characters that, after long careers, they are rarely inspired to become late-life autobiographers. Over the years, however, many are likely to have published a variety of nonfiction pieces — personal essays, talks,…
Twenty years ago Andy Sachs, an eager journalist fresh out of Northwestern University, stepped into the office of the most fashionable devil in movie history, the Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Since its premiere in 2006, “The Devil Wears Prada” has been, unironically, one of my personal favorites. I’m not the only one; the comedy…
Kenneth Tynan’s widow Kathleen, in her introduction to his letters, states, Writers hate to write, almost all of them. She goes on to describe, in loving remembrance, her husband, blocked as a writer, turning to his journals, where he might deliver himself of a self-punishing complaint about his own indolent and hateful character. Writers do…
