Best Films of Unfilmable Books, Hitchcock and Nabokov, the Book on Edgar Ulmer

• Naked Lunch and other adaptations of the unadaptable

• David Bordwell on the great critics of yore

• The Hitchcock-Nabokov collaboration that never was

• A pas de deux from Chantal Akerman and Pina Bausch

• Paul Dano is a Terence Davies fan.

• Stephen Hawking reconsiders black holes.

• Richard Brody praises the movie musical.

• Writing on writers on writers

• Test your Whit level

• Wim Wenders looks back.

• Noah Isenberg on his new Edgar Ulmer book

• Beautiful book covers from a couple of our favorite designers

• Billy Bragg on the late Pete Seeger