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Anatomy of a Scene: Great Expectations, Pip and Joe’s Reunion

How three adaptations handle Joe coming back into Pip's life, and why it matters.

Anatomy of a Scene: When Love is Gone, The Muppet Christmas Carol

A look at how The Muppet Christmas Carol handles the Love is Gone scene

Anatomy of a Scene: Much Ado About Nothing, Hero’s Wedding

Much Ado About Nothing isn’t Shakespeare’s most famous play to tackle thorny issues of gender – The Taming of the Shrew has ...

THE RAP YEAR BOOK and Twitter’s Best-Seller Magic

The Rap Year Book has blown up, becoming a best seller almost entirely because of the charisma and social media connection of its author, Shea Serrano.

Anatomy of a Scene: The Writing on the Wall in The Haunting of Hill House

A look at how two adaptations handle the Writing on the Wall scene in The Haunting of Hill House

Will the Real Irene Adler Please Step Forward

Who was the real-life inspiration for "the woman," Irene Adler?

Anatomy of a Scene: Jane Eyre’s Red Room

How three adaptations of Jane Eyre have handled the book's famous Red Room scene.

Making Maps for Books: Two Cartographers Tell Us How It’s Done

How exactly does one go about making a map of a fictional place? Two cartographers take us through the process of making a fictional map.

Why BuzzFeed’s Leap to Longform is Good for Readers

Earlier this week, BuzzFeed publicly stepped forward into the world of longform, online journalism by hiring a new editor specifically to ...