Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn’s most recent novel is Ravage & Son. His new novel, Maria La Divina, will be published this year. Silver Wolves, a novel for young adults, will be published next year. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the American University of Paris.

The Murderer as Everyman

Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

By Jerome Charyn | Monday March 3, 2025

Thunder in Her Head

A new biography of a master choreographer

By Jerome Charyn | Thursday February 1, 2024

George’s Angels

Remembering my time with Balanchine’s dancers

By Jerome Charyn | Monday May 15, 2023

Mightier Than the Sword

A celebrated cartoonist looks back on his singular life and career

By Jerome Charyn | Monday December 13, 2021

Raising Mank

The Academy Award–winning film about the making of Citizen Kane is really a window into the tumultuous, brutal side of Hollywood’s golden age

By Jerome Charyn | Saturday June 5, 2021
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio

Alternate Universes

Quentin Tarantino has, over the course of his career, reimagined the art of filmmaking

By Jerome Charyn | Monday December 2, 2019

A Proximity to Greatness

How a reclusive writer’s work came to be published

By Jerome Charyn | Tuesday September 4, 2018

Prometheus Unbound

Emily Dickinson comes confidently alive

By Jerome Charyn | Monday June 5, 2017

Tatiana & T. S. Eliot

By Jerome Charyn | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Meeting Bellow

By Jerome Charyn | Monday December 2, 2013

The Murderer as Everyman

By Jerome Charyn | Monday March 3, 2025

Thunder in Her Head

By Jerome Charyn | Thursday February 1, 2024

George’s Angels

By Jerome Charyn | Monday May 15, 2023

Mightier Than the Sword

By Jerome Charyn | Monday December 13, 2021

Raising Mank

By Jerome Charyn | Saturday June 5, 2021
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio

Alternate Universes

By Jerome Charyn | Monday December 2, 2019

A Proximity to Greatness

By Jerome Charyn | Tuesday September 4, 2018

Prometheus Unbound

By Jerome Charyn | Monday June 5, 2017

Tatiana & T. S. Eliot

By Jerome Charyn | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Meeting Bellow

By Jerome Charyn | Monday December 2, 2013

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