“The Merchant of Venice'' is Shakespeare’s most anti-semitic work, but writer D.A. Mindell (22C) and director Elizabeth Johnson (17Ox, 19C) used that tension to craft a beautiful story about what it means to be Jewish during the Holocaust. Mindell’s play, titled “‘The Merchant of Venice’ by William Shakespeare (or at least our best approximation),” focuses [...]
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The third and final installment of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” film series, “To All the Boys: Always and Forever,” released Feb. 12 on Netflix just in time for Valentine’s Day. The movies, which follow the relationship between Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) and Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), are based on the [...]
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The world of fiction has provided an invaluable escape this year. I love staying in and falling into a good book, and quarantine has allowed me to read more books than I typically do. Although 2020 is over, the pandemic isn’t, so now’s the perfect time to pick up a new book. Here are my [...]
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Writing an unplanned sequel to a standalone book can either be amazing or terrible depending on the execution (see “Legendary” by Stephanie Garber and “The Cursed Child” by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne). “Ready Player Two,” the sequel to Ernest Cline’s 2011 bestselling novel “Ready Player One,” falls squarely in the second category. [...]
Read MoreSeason 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown” is the most gripping and stunning season so far. The new season dropped on Nov. 15 and has already received overwhelming praise from critics and laypeople alike. This season follows three central women: Queen Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman), Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) and Princess Diana (Emma Corrin), [...]
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