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Ted Scheinman

Ted Scheinman is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine and a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. His first book, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, is available now via FSG Originals.

Articles

The Wrath of the Gods: Surviving the Pandemic with Petronius, Fitzgerald, and Eliot
The "Satyricon" shaped two of the most important texts of the 20th century — and the Petronian "anti-epic" is still funny, even during Covid....
Ted ScheinmanDec 9, 2021
- Fiction
The Dead Girl Speaks: “Ophelia,” Reviewed
Ted Scheinman revisits “Hamlet” through the eyes of its heroine with “Ophelia,” a film adaptation from director Claire McCarthy and writer Semi Chellas....
Ted ScheinmanAug 4, 2019
- Film
The Bob Odenkirk Files
Considering the comedian’s legacy, and future, in light of his recent book....
Ted ScheinmanDec 12, 2014
Let Us Now Tweet at Famous Men: The Selected Tweets of James Agee
James Agee on Twitter. Foreword by Walker Evans....
Ted ScheinmanMar 25, 2014
The Hollywood Reporter: On Anne Thompson's "The $11 Billion Year"
LAY-READERS who purchase Anne Thompson's The $11 Billion Year will learn some interesting and sometimes disturbing stats about “the changing Hollywood system” — including the rise of Video-On-Demand (VOD), the decline of DVDs, the cost and occasional misuse of 3D — and the ...
Ted ScheinmanMar 17, 2014
The Black Page and the Navel Gaze: Deferring Death on Laurence Sterne’s 300th Birthday
A tribute to Sterne on his 300th birthday....
Ted ScheinmanNov 24, 2013
Post-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season Four
On Netflix's 'semi-original series,' après le déluge...
Ted ScheinmanJun 2, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Much Ado About What, Exactly? Joss Whedon’s Progressive Bardolatry
On Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' adaptation...
Ted ScheinmanApr 5, 2013
SXSW Notebook: On Geoff Marslett's Film "Loves Her Gun"
Critics, Firearms, & Trieste Kelly Dunn...
Ted ScheinmanMar 29, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Rebooting "Evil Dead"
On Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' remake...
Ted ScheinmanMar 20, 2013
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick...
Ted ScheinmanFeb 20, 2013
Fashioning Jane: How to Read Paula Byrne’s New Biography
IN 1817, HENRY AUSTEN prefaced the posthumous release of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey with a decorous “Biographical Notice” that defined his late sister in pious terms: her life, we were assured, had been one of “usefulness, literature, and ...
Ted ScheinmanJan 27, 2013