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This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.
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The format may be different, but FKA twigs remains as hypnotic as ever on her album Caprisongs.
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This effective advocacy documentary charts the 21st-century decline of a great American institution (one established in the U.S. Constitution). It’s also a wake-up call alerting us that things didn’t have to happen this way.
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This dispatch reviews three documentaries that are very different from each other, but are all fascinating and engaging. This was an excellent year for documentaries at Sundance. I will review several more before this year’s dispatches are complete.
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Yto Barrada’s intent in this show is not to warn about environmental catastrophe so much as to explore where culture and the natural world meet.
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These three Sundance films supplied very intense viewing experiences.
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You know how the story is going to end, but it can only unfold if you take Cassandra’s hand and follow where she knows to go. Believe that she knows the way.
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We learn that Navalny — if we didn’t know it already from reporters who cling to Putin’s charismatic nemesis — is a persuasive man who has gotten a long way on his wits and courage.
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.
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An upstart young rider confronts an aging jockey. Yet there’s nary a cliché.
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Arts Commentary: From the Editor’s Desk — By Popular Demand, 2026