David Lehman

David Lehman, a contributing editor of the Scholar, is a poet, critic, and the general editor of The Best American Poetry annual anthology and author of the book One Hundred Autobiographies. He currently writes our Talking Pictures column.

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

By David Lehman | Friday November 22, 2024

In Reprise: Next Line, Please

A new poetry prompt for players new and old

By David Lehman | Friday October 25, 2024

Tunneling to Freedom

In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp

By David Lehman | Thursday June 6, 2024

Homage to the Uncanny

Dead of Night (1945), a masterpiece of horror

By David Lehman | Thursday February 29, 2024

How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?

A multiple-choice test for the maestro’s fans

By David Lehman | Friday January 19, 2024

“Mr. Lucky” Didn’t Know Who He Was

How Cary Grant’s magical film career paralleled a lifelong identity crisis

By David Lehman | Thursday September 28, 2023

Brilliant Carnage

Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet

By David Lehman | Thursday February 23, 2023

What Hath Gable Got?

“Rhett Butler” romances Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s comic masterpiece It Happened One Night

By David Lehman | Monday November 28, 2022

The Allure of the Enigmatic

“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up

By David Lehman | Thursday August 25, 2022

Famous Last Lines

How many do you know by heart?

By David Lehman | Thursday July 21, 2022

Blues in the Night

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 16, 2016

Ruby Tuesday

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 9, 2016

A Break with Tradition

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 2, 2016

The Mood of Doom, Where Guns Are Snug

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 26, 2016

Erase and Change

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 19, 2016

The Unmasking

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 12, 2016

A Plot Twist–or Two

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 5, 2016

Looking Ahead

By David Lehman | Tuesday December 29, 2015

The Rules of Engagement

By David Lehman | Tuesday December 22, 2015

Bliss is Momentary in the Mind

By David Lehman | Tuesday December 15, 2015

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