Shirley Jackson is known today primarily as a writer of literary suspense. But she was also a wife, and a mother, roles examined by a new film on Hulu.
Like his wife Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne had an abiding interest in, and a cleared-eyed view of, the struggle between the haves and the have-nots.
Telling the story of two friends in the Oregon territory who steal milk to bake cakes, Kelly Reichardt’s latest film asks us to ponder the nature of generosity.
