The Hundred-Year House

When a poetry scholar goes digging through the decrepit estate of his wife’s family to uncover a bygone arts colony’s strange mysteries, he awakens a tenacious monster: his mother-in-law. A wickedly funny take on aging aristocracies from author Rebecca...

Watching Them Be

What makes a film actor into a larger-than-life movie star? James Harvey’s passionate, freewheeling essays explain why there are some faces (from Greta Garbo’s to Samuel L. Jackson’s) from which we cannot look away.