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Citing safety concerns, Book Soup has canceled a March 27 appearance by Stranger Things actor and author Brett Gelman.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Renowned French auteur Arnaud Desplechin, whose latest film “Brother and Sister” competed at Cannes Film Festival in 2022, is currently wrapping his next directorial effort, “Spectateurs!” Les Films du Losange, which handles French distribution and international sales rights to the title, has unveiled a first still (above) in the run-up to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema market, where it will introduce the film to buyers. The hybrid project weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun (“The Book of Solutions”).

Isabel Coixet’s English-language adaptation of Italian author Elena Ferrante’s “The Days of Abandonment.” The deal to make the film, which is now in development, was signed before the SAG-AFTRA strike. While Cruz did not attend the Venice Film Festival, she elicited raves from critics on the Lido for her performance in Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” as the angry, lonely, grief-ravaged Laura Ferrari, emotionally estranged from her husband Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver).

Guy Lodge Film CriticWhatever other flaws “Brother and Sister” may have, you absolutely cannot accuse it of being slow to build. Within its first 10 minutes, two estranged siblings bawl each other out at a dead child’s wake, one declaring the other “an indecent monster”; a screechingly staged single-vehicle car crash imperils an elderly couple and paralyzes a teenage driver; then, a barrelling truck at the scene brings further tragedy.

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refugees’ lives and the intricacies of Mina’s relationships, examines the many angles of a timely and vital subject, and probes the life-changing choices humans are forced to make,” according to a statement issued Tuesday by award judges. “The exquisite language suspends time and investigates the intricacies of seeking refuge, both from geopolitical disruptions and from one’s own patterns of life.”Alameddine, a Lebanese American whose other works include the National Book Award finalist “An Unnecessary Woman,” will receive $15,000.

sexual assault and harassment.Skyhorse Publishing announced Friday that Bailey's “The Splendid Things We Planned,” first published in 2014, will come out as an e-book next week.

In Arnaud Desplechin’s “Deception” (“Tromperie”), one character’s husband is described as “passionate about dazzling, interesting women.” In this adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel of the same name, one can’t help but wish the director shared the character’s interest.

Arnaud Desplechin returns to the Cannes Film Festival with Deception (Tromperie), a self-indulgent Philip Roth adaptation that’s only marginally better than 2017’s derided Ismael’s Ghosts. One of the late Roth’s most openly personal novels, it details a string of affairs conducted by Jewish-American writer “Philip,” here played by French actor Denis Podalydes, speaking French.

A Christmas Tale from 2008 and loved his mysterious fantasy Kings and Queen (2004) and intriguing Edward Bond adaptation Playing “In the Company of Men” from the year before that. Desplechin has been a Cannes favourite for so long that it’s almost impossible to imagine the festival without one of his dreamy-jaunty jeux d’ésprit on the menu.

As we’ve noted in the last two weeks of this ongoing Cannes Film Festival, Léa Seydoux is the belle of the ball, and she has four films playing at Cannes, three of them in competition.

Whoever “wins” the Cannes Film Festival this year, French actress Léa Seydoux will certainly be up there regardless if she takes home any awards or not.

NEW YORK -- The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and dark and incisive worldview.Williams is this year's recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, an honor previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo among others.“Her work reveals the strange and unsettling grace just beneath the surface of our lives.

sexual assault and harassment against biographer Blake Bailey has a new publisher.Skyhorse Publishing told The Associated Press on Monday that it will have “Philip Roth: The Biography” available in paperback June 15, and hopes to have the e-book and audio editions ready by Wednesday.Bailey's 900-page biography was begun in 2012 and written with the participation of Roth, who died in 2018. Released in early April by W.W.

NEW YORK -- The audiobook publisher of a new Philip Roth biography is pulling the release, following W.W.

sexual assault or harassment and work to protect survivors.”The stunning decision follows allegations last week from former students of Bailey — who in the 1990s taught eighth grade English in New Orleans — that he had behaved inappropriately while they were in his class and later sought sexual relationships.

NEW YORK -- The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book's shipping and promotion as its author, Blake Bailey, faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.“These allegations are serious. In light of them, we have decided to pause the shipping and promotion of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography' pending any further information that may emerge,” according to a statement provided Wednesday to The Associated Press by W.W.

In “Philip Roth and Film,” the critic Ira Nadel claimed that “Roth takes pride in the proposed filming and production of his work, noting that film dramatically exposes his work to larger audiences.” “Pure rubbish, from the first sentence to the last,” Roth scribbled at the end of Nadel’s paper with his red Flair pen.

NEW YORK -- The life of Philip Roth was a story. So was the writing of his biography.Blake Bailey's “Philip Roth,” a volume Roth had imagined in some form for more than 20 years, comes out April 7.

Jersey Shore locals and visitors have visited it on Main Street for more than a century. Celebrities like Jack Nicholson,Philip Roth andDanny DeVito caught flicks there.

NEW YORK -- In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth joked that he had surrendered power over his own life to author Blake Bailey. “I trust you have been getting all the windy emails I’ve been sending you,” Roth wrote to his biographer in correspondence shared by Bailey with The Associated Press.

The Plot Against America echoes what’s happening in modern day America. Released at any time in the past 50 years or so it would have echoes, but today those echoes are loud, almost deafening.Based on a 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same name, it imagines an America that never entered the Second World War.

NEW YORK -- Colson Whitehead keeps winning awards. Already this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library of Congress.

Sixteen years before the current pandemic gripped us, writer Philip Roth envisioned a different kind of plague. In “The Plot Against America,” aviator and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh wins the presidential election against Franklin Roosevelt, unleashing a flood of anti-Semitism that leaves families cowering in their homes.

LOS ANGELES -- David Simon, the creative force behind stellar TV including “The Wire," “Show Me a Hero” and “Treme,” found himself in unfamiliar territory with his latest series, HBO’s “The Plot Against America.”

Actress Winona Ryder called the last few years under Donald Trump a “nightmare” while promoting her new HBO show, “The Plot Against America.” The actress stars in the upcoming HBO drama based on a 2004 novel by Philip Roth that depicts an alternate history of America in which aviator Charles …

Actress Winona Ryder called the last few years under Donald Trump a “nightmare” while promoting her new HBO show, “The Plot Against America.” The actress stars in the upcoming HBO drama based on a 2004 novel by Philip Roth that depicts an alternate history of America in which aviator Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency in the 1940s.

The emotional high point on HBO’s new limited series “The Plot Against America” comes when Herman (Morgan Spector) the father of a family of Jews in an increasingly anti-Semitic 1940s America, has been pushed past his limit by the bullying of his countrymen, including a fellow restaurant patron trying to intimidate him.

"When I was a kid, I dressed kind of like a 65-year-old man on the Upper West Side," says actor Zach Woods — who recently ended a six-season run as Jared Dunn on Silicon Valley — of his Manhattan upbringing. "I would wear tweed jackets and woolly ties, and I looked like a humanities professor but, like, a 7-year-old.