Thorpe soon learned, however, that America wanted the story but not the man. All myths aren’t made the same. We like legends. They make us feel unstoppable. Other myths, however, are used to ...

Ellie Smith for The New York Times She realized that “if we were going to retell the story of Abstract Expressionism as not entirely masculine, we also had responsibility to retell it as not ...

In his retelling, Maguire, an Oz fan since childhood ... lent some of the Garland-led film’s sparkle to Maguire’s story and made it appropriate for an all-ages audience.