The Film Comment Selects series is a highlight of the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s annual surveys. Programmed by the writers of the Film Society’s own Film Comment magazine, the festival gives adventurous New York filmgoers the opportunity to sample

Time to pick an old favourite off the shelf? I don’t know how much research was needed to reach this conclusion. It sounds like common sense. The authors of the study, Cristel Russell of The American University and Sidney Levy of the University of Arizon

All writers have some secret about the way they work. Mine is that I write in bed. Big deal!, you are probably thinking. Mark Twain, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Truman Capote, and plenty of other writers did too. Vladimir Nabokov even kept index cards un

Born in San Francisco, raised on the San Francisco Giants and Major League Baseball, Richard Dyer can often be found listening to the music of Raymond Scott, Antonio Vivaldi, Phish, or Thelonious Monk. He is a member of ActiveBass.com and has published a

Russia’s literature geniuses remain on the top of the global ‘best writers’ list, a poll conducted among contemporary British and US novelists shows. More than a hundred English-speaking writers were asked to make their rating of the best ten literature

And that’s okay by me. While the wire fox terrier may be adored by the judges at Westminster (the breed has won more than a dozen “Best of Show” awards, more than any other), no dog has been more widely loved by writers and artists than the dachshund.