An ongoing critical debate is whether fiction featuring sympathetic characters can still qualify as “literary.” Serious writers tend to gravitate toward the distasteful and dastardly; Jennifer Weiner ...

Ranking Nick Hornby's 12 best/worst books and movies Nick Hornby's new novel, "Funny Girl," is out in Great Britain, and it's getting great reviews. If you can't wait for your copy (the book arrives ...

"Making a tape is like writing a letter," muses Rob, the narrator of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel High Fidelity. "You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention. ... And then you've got to up ...

Writer Nick Hornby is gearing up for a busy fall. He wrote the screenplay for the much anticipated film An Education, which will be released next month, and his newest novel, Juliet, Naked, hits ...

This cover image released by Riverhead shows "Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius" by Nick Hornby. (Riverhead via AP) “Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius,” by Nick Hornby ...

Reporting from New York — A young person setting off in search of opportunity and romance would seem like one of the more popular cinematic destinations. So popular that, as Yogi Berra might have said ...

The High Fidelity writer finds making movies, like Brooklyn, more satisfying than spending years alone in a room writing a book. Brooklyn is based on Colm Toibin’s novel about a young woman in the ...

Leah Greenblatt is the former critic at large for movies, books, music, and theater at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2023. EW caught up with the cross-continental collaborators—via conference ...

Smart, beautiful, strong woman from the boonies goes to the city, weathers crises, triumphs and falters, and finally reaches a level of grateful acceptance for everything good in her life. A dusty and ...

When Julia Child said, “Every woman should kiss her butcher,” it’s too bad she couldn’t have known the heartthrob of a butcher in “Just Like You,” Nick Hornby’s charming, funny, touching, and relevant ...

You can get a crash course in Nick Hornby’s work in the span of an hour-long London walk. The artist has three permanent sculptures installed across the city, metal ...

Hornby's 1995 novel about a record shop owner was made into a film in 2000. Now it's been adapted and updated into a new Hulu series, starring Zoë Kravitz. Originally broadcast in 1995. ZOE KRAVITZ: ...