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The song, not the singer

The song, not the singer

It took me a long time to get used to putting my byline on a newspaper piece.

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Philip Martin

ONBOOKS | OPINION: Ron Currie weaves multiple strands into crime novel

ONBOOKS | OPINION: Ron Currie weaves multiple strands into crime novel

I imagine people who read crime books, of both the fiction and nonfiction variety, favor the genre for a handful of reasons, most of which would make...

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POPNOTES | OPINION: In AppleTV’s new satirical series, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg explore the predicament of making movies in today’s Hollywood

POPNOTES | OPINION: In AppleTV’s new satirical series, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg explore the predicament of making movies in today’s Hollywood

Hollywood, that curious and gelatinous beast, loves artists -- until it doesn't.

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: To tell the truth

OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: To tell the truth

When I was a sophomore in high school, my American history teacher was also my baseball coach.

02.04.2025 7

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Dreaming together

Dreaming together

Earlier this year, I programmed a film series for LifeQuest of Arkansas, a nonprofit dedicated to lifelong learning.

31.03.2025 10

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GREAT MOVIES | OPINION: ‘The Searchers’ (1956) a pivotal film in history and American cultural consciousness

GREAT MOVIES | OPINION: ‘The Searchers’ (1956) a pivotal film in history and American cultural consciousness

My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II...

29.03.2025 4

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POPNOTES | OPINION: ‘The White Lotus’ continues to show us the privileged and their denial of consequence and mortality

POPNOTES | OPINION: ‘The White Lotus’ continues to show us the privileged and their denial of consequence and mortality

When I wrote about the first season of HBO’s “The White Lotus” in 2023, I invoked Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1842 poem “The Lotos-Eaters,”...

29.03.2025 3

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The sure thing

The sure thing

Sherman White died at the age of 82 in August 2011 in the same Black working-class town in which he'd been brought up.

26.03.2025 3

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The “honorables”

The “honorables”

"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism--which is true, but they miss the point.

24.03.2025 3

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: ‘Guatemalan Rhapsody’: Stories that insist on being heard

ONBOOKS | OPINION: ‘Guatemalan Rhapsody’: Stories that insist on being heard

"When you're growing up in a small town, you say no one famous ever came from here."

23.03.2025 3

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Flounder, c’est nous

Flounder, c’est nous

You remember Flounder.Aka Kent Dorfman, the hapless pledge played by Stephen Furst in "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978).

19.03.2025 4

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The bellyache heard ’round the world

On April 9, 1925, Irish newspaper The Belfast Telegraph ran a shocking headline: "Babe Ruth, American baseball champion and national hero of every...

17.03.2025 10

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: The silver-tongued devil and I

". . . he's the worst singer I've ever heard.

14.03.2025 20

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: The silver-tongued devil and I

"... he's the worst singer I've ever heard. It's not that he's off key--he has no relation to key. He also has no phrasing, no dynamics, no energy,...

13.03.2025 4

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Opinion: Replacing wisdom with lols

10.03.2025 6

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Don't look back

05.03.2025 5

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Don’t look back

04.03.2025 4

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The wheel’s still in spin

02.03.2025 10

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Code 29

27.02.2025 3

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Code 29

25.02.2025 10

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To be brave

23.02.2025 7

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: Entertaining the strange: Breton’s quest for the marvelous

23.02.2025 8

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Roots, legacy of “Saturday Night Live”

21.02.2025 8

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GREAT MOVIES | OPINION: Ingmar Bergman’s purest distillation of his artistic vision in ‘Autumn Sonata’ (1978)

21.02.2025 20

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Secession, siege and memory

19.02.2025 7

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Secession, siege and memory

18.02.2025 9

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: 'Dulce et Decorum Est' six miles from Earth

18.02.2025 5

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‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ six miles from Earth

16.02.2025 10

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A fluid prejudice

11.02.2025 7

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Opinion: The killing joke

10.02.2025 8

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The killing joke

09.02.2025 8

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CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: 12th-century brutality to Super Bowl gold

08.02.2025 5

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Guitarists’ minimalism leaves behind the unnecessary until the essence remains

07.02.2025 20

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Fear, risk and reality

05.02.2025 2

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The hard work of happiness

04.02.2025 3

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Fear, risk and reality

04.02.2025 10

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The hard work of happiness

02.02.2025 10

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: 100 years on, ‘Gatsby’ is nearly perfect

01.02.2025 4

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Dissecting the 2024 Oscar nominations

31.01.2025 10

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Snubbing Ichiro

29.01.2025 9

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Snubbing Ichiro

28.01.2025 3

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No success like failure

27.01.2025 5

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No success like failure

26.01.2025 9

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CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: Can art make us better people? A few filmmakers try

25.01.2025 10

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POPNOTES | OPINION: David Lynch took us to some weird but fascinating places

24.01.2025 6

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: America's religious narrative

22.01.2025 4

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: America’s religious narrative

21.01.2025 7

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Opinion: When good artists go bad

20.01.2025 3

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When good artists go bad

19.01.2025 5

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Tarantino: Cinematic ‘remixing,’ homage

17.01.2025 8

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