Review
Musa Al-Gharbi’s provocative book undercuts the left elite by pointing out the hypocrisy of its well intentioned rhetoric. The “woke” live comfortable lives because of the very inequities they condemn.
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Rachel Kushner’s latest novel is mélange of vignettes, stand-alone or linked flash essays, and portentous bits of wisdom.
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The New York Film Festival’s Revivals section offers a preview of valuable recent restorations. Even if these superb movies don’t all make it to American theaters, they’re likely to pop up on physical media or VOD.
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This is a work of towering, masterful, sustained cinematic rage set at the dawn of the Reagan Era.
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.
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It was all intense, bracing, and urgent jazz in Austin last week. I don’t know how all y’all spoiled New Yorkers keep your heads from exploding.
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This nuanced study in domestic malfunction is as universal as it is heartbreaking.
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An absorbing novel that builds steadily, not to a shattering or violent conclusion (all the violence is in the past or offstage) but to a quiet release that is humane and persuasive.
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It is on the universal theme of identity that “A Different Man” resonates most eloquently, demonstrating how who we are is not fixed but chosen, a mask we don whether it fits or not.
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Two closely watched films in Toronto were dark dramas that couldn’t have been more different.
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