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Eat Prey Drug: Motel 6

September 26, 2014

A pit-stop in South Dakota reconnects friends, memories and everyone with a camera phone.

September 10, 2014

How did Martin muscle his way to the best-seller's list with A Song of Ice and Fire?

August 19, 2014

Writing by the real Piper, Larry, Alex and more.

June 17, 2014

If your favorite work of literature has never been adapted into a movie or TV show, it’s not for a lack of trying.

June 13, 2014

Read an exclusive excerpt from Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community, out now from Chicago Review Press.

June 10, 2014

Sure, there were no Starks or dragons, but what about regicide, the Westeros countryside and all that sex? Based in fact or fantasy?

April 29, 2014

Prepare yourself for the David Foster Wallace biopic by remembering these 10 god awful ones.

April 09, 2014

House of Cards, Dexter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer all have more in common than just being on your Netflix queue.

When Should a TV Show End?

March 31, 2014

The series finale of How I Met Your Mother airs tonight, but should we have said goodbye years ago?

March 20, 2014

Television is atrophying your brain. Stop it with a good book or 10.

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