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Annie Berke

Takoma Park, United States

Film and TV Section Editor at Los Angeles Review of Books

Writer at Freelance

(she/her) - film/TV ed @lareviewofbooks - culture writer @newrepublic @nytimes @washingtonpost @LitHub @villagevoice @wcp @theavclub @yalereview

Articles

  • Jul 26, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Annie Berke

    American film and television have long imagined the mid–twentieth century as a moment of security and confidence, a time when you could order liberal political consensus with your milkshake at the local Woolworth’s. Movies and shows of the 1990s were especially preoccupied with postwar optimism, presenting their own portraits of progress dosed with nostalgia.

  • Jul 10, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | Annie Berke

    Hie thee hither that I might pour my spirits in thine earOn all that impedes thee from the Oval Room. Thane Axelrod summoned me today to betray my nature But follow my sense, when I say, my liege:What’s done is done. The enterprise is shot. In the past, thou hast found in me a woman of fell purposeBut, my Lord, screw your courage. We could fail. Safer, no doubt, to name a hale successor,One quick of wit and sharp of tongue.

  • Apr 23, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Annie Berke

    “Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.” These words, penned by the great Nora Ephron, come from her autobiographical novel Heartburn. But they also cut to the heart of the contemporary romantic comedy and the particular obstacles its leads tend to face.

  • Apr 17, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Annie Berke

    Thanks for being a member of City Paper! As Erika Howsare writes in her new book, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors, “Deer are bigger and more charismatic than” crows, vultures, or squirrels “by an order of magnitude … there’s something about how a deer looks back.” In the course of reading Howsare’s book, published by Penguin Random House on Jan. 2, I went on a walk and stumbled into a staring contest with a deer.

  • Jan 22, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Annie Berke

    Thanks for being a member of City Paper! In one of the many folktales sprinkled throughout City of Laughter, the debut novel from Temim Fruchter, a girl seeks to hold the rain, all of it, in her body. Ultimately, so the story goes, “the girl had become the rain. The rain had become the girl. The girl had defied her form.

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11 May 25

RT @LAReviewofBooks: This Mother’s Day, we’re spotlighting just a few of our many pieces of writing on motherhood. From "All Fours" to "Mot…

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7 May 25

RT @TriumphICDHQ: Conan O'Brien is famous because he can access extreme silliness in the smartest ways, often beyond our imagination. But e…

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7 May 25

i just feel like everyone wants to talk about walton goggins and everyone loves michaela watkins so why isn't THE UNICORN on everyone's lips? did i dream that show? (it feels like a show i dreamt)