In Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel Treasure Island, a pirate is given the “black spot” — a black dot on paper — to symbolize a guilty verdict, which most likely means his death sentence. The ...

David Mamet's new book, Chicago, is his first crime novel and a return to the 1920s gangland of his screenplay for The Untouchables. Below, the acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and director lists ...

The how-to is out today from Twelve Books. Robert McKee literally wrote the book on screenwriting — or one of them, at least — and though many scribes find his how-to guide more stifling than ...