Erica Wagner was born in New York and lives in London. Gravity, her collection of short stories, was published by Granta in 1997; Ariel’s Gift, a book about Ted Hughes’s “Birthday Letters,” was published by W. W. Norton in 2001;...

Apr 7, 2017 — Did You See This? Radley Metzger, the erotica pioneer who took soft core and hard core to new heights of artistry, has passed away at the age of eighty-eight. The New York Times remembers the director’s career, which began in...

The award-winning actor and star of Fancy Dance is joined by the film’s director in praising the brilliance of Kelly Reichardt, sharing their connection to After Life and Frances Ha, and selecting favorites by Martin Scorsese and Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Feb 17, 2014 — Flailing fathers, anxious mothers, and their moody offspring—these characters may have tails, but they’re Wes Anderson people through and through.

Critic and author Maitland McDonagh writes and lectures on film and erotica. An editor at Riverdale Avenue Books, she founded its 120 Days Books imprint to republish vintage gay adult novels.

Feb 18, 2026 — Among this month’s highlights are a celebration of VHS and how it revolutionized film culture, a spotlight on the Romanian New Wave, and a retrospective of pioneering queer filmmaker Monika Treut.

May 29, 2019 — In Anna Biller’s vibrantly colored fantasias, there’s not a glimmer of a sequin that hasn’t been envisioned by the artist herself. A writer, director, actor, producer, editor, composer, costume and production designer, and set decorator, she’s a one-woman studio, building...

Oct 4, 2016 — This account of a visit to the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls set is excerpted from an issue of the University of California, Los Angeles, newspaper.

Oct 16, 2025 — Vivacious and winning in comedies, she also brought a fierce power to her dramatic roles.

Jul 22, 2025 — An era-defining reckoning with the sexual revolution, Mike Nichols’s controversial drama develops a rigorous form for analyzing what we have recently come to call “toxic masculinity.”