Readings

Film buffs worldwide used to revere American cinema: its stories, its characters, its mythology. Now, the great American film feels provincial, as Hollywood's survival hinges on pleasing the rest of the world.

Frustrated over the stonewalled bureaucracy of city planning, concerned citizens have started taking bylaws into their own hands, a movement they’re calling tactical urbanism.

The author, who debuted in 2006 with Special Topics in Calamity Physics, talks about crafting the dark, dense world of her latest novel, Night Film; why she prefers terror to horror; and following Woody Allen through the streets of Manhattan.