Having landed a job on Broadway, thirteen-year-old Nate Foster leaves home to live with his aunt in New York. He’s living his dream as a member of the ensemble and the understudy of the title role for “E.T.: The Musical.” But you seldom get to control your dreams. For instance, there you are with...
“Jesus,” I say, “Christ.” This is the kind of hangover people write horror movies about, movies that are never funded because they’re too graphic. If you don’t know what a hangover feels like, congrats. You are smarter than I am. It’s like a sledgehammer eloped with a swing set and they honeymoon...
You remember Marlow, the complicated Englishman of Conrad’s earlier Heart of Darkness? (Don’t get too cocky, it was only ten recipes ago.) Marlow’s baaaack, this time telling another man’s tale. Jim is a young seaman who fancies himself a hero—only to abandon a ship full of Mecca-bound pilgrims w...