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“The Children’s Hospital” by Chris Adrian. (McSweeney’s) By Adrienne LaFrance Chris Adrian looks familiar because he looks ordinary. Dressed simply in khakis and a wrinkled, white Oxford shirt, he speaks just loudly enough to be heard and smiles only with his mouth closed. His calm restraint– like that of a monk or a surgeon– naturally…
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In Claire Keegan’s fiction, each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences.
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For Fleet Foxes, Shore is impressively consistent. Each track presents a meticulously detailed soundscapes deepened by Robin Pecknold’s varied meditative perspectives.
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The P-Town Fest was the site of several first-rate documentaries.
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Reviews of three new documentaries at TIFF: My Imaginary Country, To Kill a Tiger, and Miucha: The Voice of Bossa Nova.
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Intimacy, whether physical or emotional, is continually challenged in Julia Jacklin’s Pre Pleasure.
Read MoreBy Bill Marx In his critically acclaimed novels and stories, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami sings of the subterranean connections between software and the supernatural. After Dark (Knopf, 191 pp, $22.95) Haruki Murakami is a hip cultural diagnostician who would like to be viewed as a melancholic poet of the postmodern condition, a writer who has…
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It’s worth pointing out that Sabahattin Ali has deliberately reversed traditional gender roles in Madonna in a Fur Coat.
Read MoreIf you want to expand your heart and mind this holiday season, you couldn’t do better than go to The Little Prince.
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City Hall is a quiet, unsentimental celebration of civility in its many forms.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025