Sherman Alexie's You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

By Yvonne C. Garrett

SEPT 2017 | Books

Sherman Alexie recently posted a frank letter on his Facebook page explaining why he was canceling the rest of his book tour.

Love Screams: Valentine’s Day Massacre at Anthology Film Archives

By Hillary Weston

FEB 2019 | Film

For those not in the mood for love this month, Manhattan’s Anthology Film Archives will be hosting their own twisted hearts celebration with their annual Valentine’s Day Massacre series—named after the notorious 1929 Chicago gangland murders (which Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond used three decades later as the catalyst for Some Like It Hot)—a program that elides the rosy-hued confections of the holiday for films that show the thorny side of love.

LONGING, THEY SAY: On Sally Rooney's novel Conversations With Friends

By Erin Bartnett

SEPT 2017 | Books

Conversations With Friends by the debut Irish novelist Sally Rooney is equal parts coming of age story and cultural commentary. The novel is filled with brittle humor, vivid dialogue, and angular iterations of love. It is a love story, with the syrupy sweet stuff drained out.

THE MERE ARTICULATION OF SIGNIFICANCE: Joy Enough: a Memoir, by Sarah McColl

By J.C. Hallman

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Books

What you’re probably going to hear about this delicate, intelligent, and conscientiously slight debut memoir—if you haven’t already—is that ultimately it’s a foodie book: the story of a young woman in a bad marriage preparing elaborate dinners for a mother who has fallen ill and who will fail because no meal is medicine enough. That’s all here, but there’s much more to this memoir that will likely be treated only scantly in what is sure to amount to a smorgasbord of praise.