For its first 20 or so minutes, Synecdoche, New York, ... Kaufman is grappling with big themes usually reserved for dense literature: the meaning of life, its sadness and tragedy, ...

take a look at Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis, the novel by America's first Nobel laureate in literature that made the other pole of our synecdoche circus a household phrase….

Rising from the ashes of now-defunct Issues Magazine, Synecdoche launched this semester as the newest literary arts magazine on campus. In contrast to Issues’ focus on creative writing, the fledgling ...

In “Synecdoche, New York,” we are invited, I believe, to be Charlie Kaufman. Thanks, I’d rather not. What’s the rule about movies with hard-to-pronounce titles?