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This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.
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My guess is that if Sundance survives, it won’t look like the Sundance we know.
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This week’s poem: Tess Riordan’s “sunrise, 500 b.c.e.”
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This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K’s vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity’s last stand — as an animal.
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There’s always a fair bit of horror in the mix, as well as thrillers and dramas. Each entry has a chilly darkness at its core — these are stories that often abound with themes of cruelty, grief, terror, and dread.
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At some point during the writing of the book, Ken Turan must have realized, sadly, that the Mayer/Thalberg/MGM story has been done to death. All he could do was what he did: tell well what had been told well before.
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Three stories highlight the special benefits of friendship — between the old and young, and among children of different backgrounds.
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This book is an anti-biography that argues Leonardo had little interest in autobiographical self-promotion and claims that the many gaps in the historical record prevent him from cohering as a biographical subject
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“Darkenbloom” is a hefty novel, in which a blood-stained, depraved swath of history is laid bare by in-depth examination of a narrow geographical sample (think “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, or, for that matter, “Gone With the Wind”).
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025