Serial, the Peabody Award-winning podcast that spun off from This American Life and became a viral sensation, has found its second season subject. They will focus on the mystery behind Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after inexplicably leaving his base in…

The CIA and the Pentagon regularly assist filmmakers whose scripts portray them in a positive light, while denying that same assistance to filmmakers whose scripts are critical of their operations. This happens even though the Supreme Court has ruled that it's unconstitutional for the government to favor speech it…

UPDATE, 1:24 PM PT: Looks like there might be competing feature projects about recently freed POW Bowe Bergdahl. Just after breaking a story that Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are working on a film about the Army private who left his base in Afghanistan and was captured, Deadline has…

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Notes from Monday night’s 23rd annual Pen Center USA Literary Awards Festival:

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