Showrunner, Luke Matheny talks about taking E.B. White's beloved source material and expanding on its family themes to create ...

Charlotte’s Web premieres on HBO Max on October 2, 2025. All three episodes will be available for streaming.

“Animals are a weakness with me,” E.B. White said, a statement that his life and writings bear out. It is not surprising to learn, then, that in writing about animals (and spiders) in what has become ...

In 1943, when E.B. "Andy" White still was mostly known as a magazine essayist, a New York Times critic dismissed White's writing as "hogwash" and a "racket." Katharine White, a legendary editor at The ...

Once upon a time, I was in eighth grade and a book most adults didn’t want kids to read was passed around and read surreptitiously by me and most of my junior-high classmates. Several dog-eared copies ...

Meryl Streep will headline a new full-cast audiobook recording of E. B. White’s classic children’s book 'Charlotte's Web' from Listening Library. By Lexy Perez Meryl Streep is set to venture into the ...

Editor’s note: We asked Tribune writers to reflect on a piece of the larger cultural puzzle (a popular TV show, a movie, a book, etc.) they were missing — until now. At the opening of Chapter 19 of ...

In a funny coincidence, I finished reading Charlotte's Web aloud to my little niece and nephew just in time for Elisa Mala's post about censorship and "kids" books. I wholeheartedly agree that it is ...

Matheny most recently wrote, directed, and executive produced Apple TV+’s Ghostwriter, and previously had producing roles on Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and Maron. Matheny has also ...

With the publication of “Charlotte’s Web” in the fall of 1952, a guileless pig named Wilbur and the savvy spider who befriended him were introduced to readers. In a review, Eudora Welty praised E.B.

E.B. White's book is "Charlotte's Web" the classic; Paramount and Walden Media's film is "Charlotte's Web" the commodity. Given the property, big-name cast and film's inoffensive nature, however, it ...