Bram Stoker

The Straight Dope®

The Year in Film

Four critics pick 40 or so favorites--and fail to agree on a single one

The Truth About Charlie

Getting to the bottom of Charlie Kaufman's 'Adaptation'

The Year in Theater

The best and worst of 150 nights spent in a dark room. Plus: Dramatic hypotheses, and thespians speak out.

Heart of Glass

The best and worst of 150 nights spent in a dark room. Plus: Dramatic hypotheses, and thespians speak out.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

The Jungle Theater sends Salvador Dali through a looking glass in Lobster Alice; 15 Head presents Dracula as a messenger of modern anxiety

Fiction is Stranger than Fiction

Two historical figures, filmmaker F.W. Murnau and geneticist Gregor Mendel, step out of the past into two new novels

Opera Man

Performing a Ritual: Matt Damon makes a new case for his old-fashioned director in John Grisham's The Rainmaker.

The Fine Art of Sucking

Lookin' for Love: Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

Culture To Go

Lookin' for Love: Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

Kafkamania

Lookin' for Love: Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.