Italian Studies

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los...

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her...

Daniel, a writer seeking seclusion to work on his new book, finds himself stranded at a rural bed and breakfast run by a strange and prudish young...

At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and...

It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary...

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company...

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a...

Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to...

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to...

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who...