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The great thing about The A.V. Club’s Random Roles feature—the guiding principle, really—is the idea that the actors…
Ryan Vlastelica
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Ryan is an A.V. Club contributor. His writing has also appeared in Reuters, MarketWatch, the WSJ, and other outlets. He writes a lot about finance but would rather be talking about books.
Aug 7 2017
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Tom Perrotta writes books that are so compulsively readable that you may get to the end of one before it hits you…
Aug 7 2017
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One of the pitfalls that can come with writing a this-is-the-way-we-live-now novel is that the author will need…
Jun 12 2017
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Alan Alda, God bless him, just wants us all to get along. He wants us to connect more, to communicate better, so…
Jun 8 2017
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
May 22 2017
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A celebrity biography, particular one for a movie star, comes with inherent obstacles that are difficult for even…
Apr 12 2017
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It’s time for actors to stop writing memoirs.
Mar 13 2017
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In the opening lines of Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon, the biographer Marc Eliot references the notorious…
Feb 22 2017
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
Jan 11 2017
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It would be easy to underrate The Purge: Election Year, to view it as simply the latest entry in a trilogy of…
Jan 9 2017
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Last month saw the publication of George Lucas: A Life, a biography of the Star Wars director that suffered from…
Dec 20 2016
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When things get hard, you can always retreat into a good book. For all the drawbacks of 2016, the year produced some…
Dec 5 2016
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A good biography should endeavor to not simply tell the story of its subject’s life, but also to interrogate that…
Nov 21 2016
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Margaretha Zelle, better known to history as Mata Hari, was a crucial cultural figure in early 20th-century Europe.…
Nov 3 2016
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When Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby arrived on screens in 1968, it was delivered intact,…
Oct 10 2016
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In 100 Episodes, The A.V. Club examines the shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced…
Oct 6 2016
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
Sep 21 2016
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Is there a point where a film adaptation, by deviating too much from its source material, ceases to be an adaptation?
Sep 19 2016
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Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky remain the alpha and omega of modern fiction, with their major quartet—War And…
Sep 8 2016
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Although the categories have become considerably more porous in recent years, audiences seem to have different types…