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'Causeway's' Lila Neugebauer on directing Jennifer Lawrence and the joy of Elaine May

The new film "Causeway," in theaters and streaming on Apple TV+, centers on two remarkably low-key but nevertheless riveting performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry. The film is the first produced by Lawrence and is also the debut feature for director Lila Neugebauer.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 7, 2022

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 'sad-girl' fetishism or 'cuttingly funny' feminist satire?

In a new series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones.

The Conversation · Oct 2, 2022

Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally?

The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

The best books to read this summer, from Ottessa Moshfegh to Gabrielle Zevin

Choosing a reading list for the summer is a very serious matter. The Indy Culture team share the books we’ll be getting stuck into

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2022

‘My “sad girl” fans concern me’: Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado

The author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation talks to fellow US writer about memoir v fiction, depicting tyrants and the power of fairytales

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2022

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh review – a carnival of the grotesque

Plot plays second fiddle to humanity’s primal urges in Moshfegh’s charged and outlandish latest novel set in a medieval fiefdom

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2022

Author Ottessa Moshfegh, the unofficial laureate of lockdown

Ottessa Moshfegh is routinely hailed as one of the most exciting American authors working today. Her award-winning, critically acclaimed books like "Eileen" and "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" contain an ensemble of drunks and dropouts, misfits and murderers, pervs and pill-heads – all of them loners. Her narrators are…

France 24 · Feb 1, 2022