This weekend, Vulture released a trailer for director Andrea Arnold’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s classic novel of tragic love and revenge. The film premiered last year at the… Read more »

The nominations for the 2012 Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday morning, with literary adaptations such as Game of Thrones, Game Change, and Sherlock in the mix for the top… Read more »

Comic book aficionados might feel like they’re seeing the same group of characters turn up in every superhero movie lately: the much-anticipated Batman film The Dark Knight Rises and a reboot of… 1 / Read more »

The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing this week, and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins has surmised that its coveted prize, the Palme d’Or, will most likely be presented to… Read more »

Melville International Crime author Mukoma Wa Ngugi was recently interviewed by Kali TV, an independent news program that focuses on the stories of Africans living in the diaspora. Wa Ngugi’s… Read more »

Happy Friday the 13th. Did you know that Victor Miller, the man who wrote the screenplay for the first Friday the 13th movie is also a Grammy Emmy award-winning soap opera writer?… 1 / Read more »

Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of Swedish crime novels are some of the best-selling and most recognizable books of the last 50 years. There’s isn’t a literate soul in America who isn’t… 6 / Read more »

The moment we’ve all been waiting for… The 9/11 novel The New York Times called “irritating” and New York Press hailed as “incredibly false” has been made into a major feature… 6 / Read more »

Dan Rush’s first film, Everything Must Go, is based on Raymond Carver’s very short story, “Why Don’t You Dance” and stars Will Ferrell. You can read the full Carver short-story… Read more »

At The New Yorker’s Book Bench Meredith Blake reports that: Australian director Baz Luhrmann told reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that he was thinking of filming his… 2 / Read more »