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The Bourne Identity is based on a 1980 novel by Robert Ludlum, the first of a Cold War-themed trilogy of spy novels centering around the character of Jason Bourne. The novel was previously adapted into a very ?80s TV-movie starring Richard Chamberlain. The story has been retooled for a naughts audience and most of the [...]

Insomnia will keep you up at night. Director Christopher Nolan, the man who brought us last year's indie hit Memento, has created a film that wraps its tendrils around the viewer?s brain, dredging up primal fears and refusing to let go long after you?ve left the theater. Equal parts morality play and thriller, the film [...]

For four months last fall, I worked as an intern for the Atlantic Monthly. An intern at the Atlantic has one central duty: reading the so-called "slush pile," the mountain of unsolicited manuscripts the magazine receives every day. Unlike most mainstream literary magazines, the Atlantic prides itself in its assertion that they read every manuscript [...]