To tell the love story of Newland Archer (A. J. Shively) and Countess Ellen Olenska (Shereen Ahmed), Zacarías uses a narrator (Felicia Curry), which enables deft condensation of Wharton's detailed ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

As the soundtrack to a film about an unlikely May-December romance between an innocent young man and a wise yet wizened woman many years his senior, the music composed by Cat Stevens and included in ...

Social status and wealth are powerful motivators, especially for those considered to be upper class. When one’s world is dictated by others’ perceptions, it can drastically affect one’s actions and ...

2025 is a propitious time to revisit “The Age of Innocence.” Edith Wharton’s wistful 1920 survey of the rigid social codes of 1870s New York, penned in the wake of a global pandemic, did not suggest ...

Netflix is doubling down on adaptations of classic novels, with the streamer officially greenlighting series version of “The Age of Innocence” and “Unaccustomed Earth.” “The Age of Innocence” was ...

Fiona Glascott (“Julia,” “Brooklyn,” “Fantastic Beasts”), Belinda Bromilow (“The Great,” “The Roses”) and Emma Shipp (“Rivals,” “What it Feels Like For a Girl”) have joined the show as series regulars ...