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Articles by Bill Ryan (page 1)
August 7, 2023 7:55 pm
William Friedkin, 1935–2023
The career ups and downs of the director of ‘The French Connection’—plus, what people *still* get wrong about ‘The Exorcist.’
June 30, 2023 3:46 pm
Alan Arkin, 1934–2023
A funnyman whose dramatic range turned out to be limitless.
May 31, 2023 5:30 am
Cormac McCarthy and the World’s Horrible Unknowability
His new novels deserve to be remembered as the literary event of the last decade.
May 22, 2023 5:30 am
Martin Amis, 1949–2023
A craftsman whose abhorrence of cliché helped create greatness.
April 7, 2023 5:30 am
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ and the Beginning of the Coens’ End
Art and commerce and Hollywood: the eternal struggle.
October 27, 2022 5:30 am
Horror Writer Peter Straub, an Outsider in the Mainstream
His novels are good, but his novellas might be great.
October 13, 2022 5:30 am
The Tricky Terrors of H.P. Lovecraft
A little racist, sometimes a bit dull, but undeniably influential and wholly original.
October 6, 2022 5:30 am
Brian Evenson and the Basics of Violence
Literary horror from an excommunicated perspective.
