Cinematic Considerations There’s a scene in the opening moments of writer/director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” that announces the arrival of another great American epic. Adrian Brody portraying a Jewish-Hungarian Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor looks at his surroundings on a ship that revea...

Neal Pollack is the author of 11 bestselling books, a Jeopardy! champion, and is widely regarded as “The Greatest Living American Writer.” I chatted with him about this and more. You’ve said you realized you wanted to be a writer in seventh grade. Tell us how that came about. We had these weekly voc...

If chickens didn’t exist, Elon Musk would have to invent them. Think about it. Chickens are the Swiss Army knives of the food pantry. Imagine the discussion around the table at The Creator’s Create-A-Creature Corporation. “OK, team. The boss wants us to come up with some type of magical food source ...

Iwas sent to school with a sacked lunch. Eating in the lunchroom cost 20¢, and the food was awful — even the milk was diluted with water. I know becau...

Cinematic Considerations Over the past several decades, there has been a sharp and steady decline in what is often known as docudrama, historically-ba...

Outdoors On Edge The year ahead will be a busy one for me and this column. I have several trips planned, ideas to explore, people to interview, and hi...