Alex Berg

3 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Alex Berg

Thrillers flirt with the absurd. Everyone knows this, except the people in thrillers, who are far too busy misplacing briefcases, dangling from cornices, falling in love with the wrong people, and being chased through cobblestoned foreign capitals to notice how ridiculous everything has gotten. Article continues after advertisementThe “screwball thriller” is a genre of fiction that’s been celebrated on these pages before.

1 month ago | littler.com | Barry A. Hartstein |Janell Ahnert |Alyesha Asghar |Alex Berg

Littler Report An Annual Report on EEOC Charges, Litigation, Regulatory Developments and Noteworthy Case Developments By Barry A. Hartstein et al. April 28, 2025 3 minute read This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2024 (hereafter “Report”), our fourteenth annual publication, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC” or “the Commission”) developments over the past fiscal year.

Feb 19, 2025 | crimereads.com | Alex Berg

A few weeks back, filmmaker Paul Schrader dropped his latest masterpiece—and no, I’m not talking about Oh, Canada, his feature adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel, Foregone. I’m referring to his Facebook post endorsing AI as an adequate replacement for most filmmakers:Article continues after advertisementThis arrives hot on the heels of Schrader’s previous provocation—his off-the-cuff, needlessly cruel review of Joker: Folie à Deux:It’s a really bad musical. I don’t like either of those people.

Feb 3, 2025 | lithub.com | Alex Berg

A few weeks back, filmmaker Paul Schrader dropped his latest masterpiece—and no, I’m not talking about Oh, Canada, his feature adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel, Foregone. I’m referring to his Facebook post endorsing AI as an adequate replacement for most filmmakers:Article continues after advertisementThis arrives hot on the heels of Schrader’s previous provocation—his off-the-cuff, needlessly cruel review of Joker: Folie à Deux:It’s a really bad musical. I don’t like either of those people.

Jan 30, 2025 | kentuckymonthly.com | Alex Berg

Daggum goats got out the paddock again. Busted a picket and squeezed right through, stared me down as if to say, Mr. “Big Shoulders,” huh? And you want hogs next? I let them browse and hop on the mower. Not but one pass across the acreage before rubber burns and the belt snaps. Well, if the old pusher kicks it, then I’ll take a whetstone to the scythe, after some growth, and stack that fescue for winter straw.