The Words

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on...

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One day, her short stories win her a grant to...

Lucas, a writer without ideas, receives an unexpected visit from his neighbors.

Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he...

Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa prepares to host a high society party at her home, as her complicated past begins to consume her, in...

In 1936, aspiring writer Anders, along with his friend Sixten, is desperate to escape his working-class upbringing. Anders' father is an unemployed...

While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel.

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.

A reunion weekend spirals out of control for four college friends when the host - a science fiction writer on the verge of newfound success - fights...