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Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor.
Elizabeth Howard talks to “Book Post” editor and critic Ann Kjellberg about the value of literary criticism as a form of sustained reflection.
Léa Seydoux claims the spotlight as the title character in Bruno Dumont’s pithy and entertaining France, giving a performance that’s cunningly calibrated to mesmerize.
Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.
“Page One” is quite interesting but also quite scattered. You’ll exit the theater knowing a couple things about the New York Times, and maybe feeling like you got an idea about the characters of some of the talented, humorous, and interesting personalities that put it together.
The Floundering State of Film Criticism
Ana Rivas sent in this piece on a recent confab at Boston University featuring two film critics – Renata Adler, who for a short time in the ’60s was a film critic for The New York Times and A.O. Scott, who is the current chief film critic for the paper. The conversation contained some interesting…
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