120 years. It’s the length of the “reduced” sentence that Scott Lewis was handed by the Connecticut courts when he was convicted for murder in 1991. It’s also the title of a 2018 documentary about Lewis’ wrongful conviction and ultimate exoneration, made...
Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov is best known today for his 1859 novel “Oblomov,” an inventive satire of the waning Russian nobility, embodied in its title character, who is so sedentary and slothful that “Oblomovism” is still synonymous with “laziness.”...
When American moviegoers hear the phrase “Italian film,” Millicent Marcus, founder of Yale’s annual New Italian Film Festival, encourages them to think outside the black-and-white, neorealist box of 1960s classics by major directors like Fellini,...