I’m a guy who spends a lot of time at the movies, as well as the new arts and entertainment writer for a publication that already has a movie reviewer. So I see one of my challenges as staying on my ...

“Every culture has its southerners,” Susan Sontag writes in her 1992 novel, “The Volcano Lover,” set in Naples. According to the stereotype, southerners are unrefined but also uninhibited; they ...