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Make what you will of this often page-turning confection, which if not particularly literary, may be a bunch of fun.
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Luke Spiller of the Struts: probably rock’s most commanding frontman since Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Steven Tyler in their prime.
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.
Read MoreMembership in academe comes down to those who never wanted to leave the comforts of college or those who see it as a launching pad for scoring big bucks.
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This time around, I decided to go all in and totally movie-pill myself by seeing all 12 films in the feature line-up at the expense of my own sanity. Just kidding …
Read MoreHelen Constantine’s new translation of Balzac’s “The Wild Ass’s Skin” serves this wonderful and weird book well. It is one of the great, black comic fables in world literature, a dazzlingly demented exploration of a society’s lack of imagination.
Read MoreThough the culinary tastes in this book are original and often complex, the recipes themselves are breathtakingly clear and often very simple.
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Seth Rogen puts in double duty as an early 20th century Jewish immigrant and his modern great grandson in a comedy that starts off sweet but leaves a bitter aftertaste.
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Despite the artificiality of Summertime’s premise, director Carlos López Estrada links the film’s episodes together via a kind of seamless magical realism: each moment smoothly leads to the next, each accelerates towards a powerful resolution.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025