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We don't need physics to recognize the relative nature of time; just look at the ways we mark it.
At the start of Ben Lerner's startling new novel "Transcription," a man sits on a train trying to read and failing because he is facing the wrong...
A young man ain't nothing in the world these days.
Jayne Ann Phillips looks back without imposing a moral; Maria Semple keeps things moving before one can form. A memoir and a comic novel meet in their...
Only in retrospect does Gillian Welch's 1996 album "Revival" feel like a beginning.
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Movies cover all the genres, but how many sequels and reboots do we really need?
On April 14, 1865, a man slipped into a theater, waited for a laugh line, and changed the shape of American memory.
I was 7 years old when Richard Speck made me aware the world could turn intimate spaces--rooms, beds, the ordinary geometry of safety--into killing...
My late father-in-law, Yanko, was not mobbed up, although he knew people and how the world worked, which in certain regions of the country is a...
Benjamin Saltzman’s ‘Turning Away’ suggests that averting the gaze is not evasion but a form of recognition — one that complicates what we...
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A skeleton in the Texas desert reopens a buried history in ‘Lone Star’ — and exposes the stories a town tells to live with itself.
If there is a throughline for the following reviews, it isn't genre or even era so much as adjustment under pressure -- artists recalibrating what...
I don't have much trouble doing my taxes. Not because they're simple; they aren't. I've always just seen them as basic adult skills, like tying a tie...
How much clarity is useful if it doesn't lead anywhere? In his comic novel "Down Time," Andrew Martin writes about people who can describe their lives...
Recent "No Kings" rallies have the virtue of clarity. The slogan told you what was being rejected. It said less about how to understand the thing...
Each generation gets the crime writer it deserves. Picture the handoff: The 1920s swapped monocles for brass knuckles, as Dashiell Hammett yanked the...
A new Blu-ray release brings “Randy and the Mob” and the Oscar-winning short “The Accountant” back into circulation, both newly restored, both...
Filmmaker Ray McKinnon’s re-released movies (and his others) revisit similar situations from fresh perspectives.
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The calendar says "new releases," but what you're really tracking is what manages to stay in circulation. The theatrical window narrows, the streaming...
“The Staircase” is a story that has never really left. It begins in December 2001, when Kathleen Peterson is found dead at the bottom of a...
Baseball used to be a clockless game. There is a pitch clock now. You can see it, which is part of the point.
A travel narrative that resists easy distance, a history that restores a nation to view, and a novel that questions whether love is ever prewritten.
I recently spoke with a friend I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years. We met on a Zoom call, a detail that will eventually date us, the way earlier...
There are any number of ways to take the measure of a record’s life. Only a few of them have little to do with the music itself.
Read back to back, a debut novel of unraveling identity and a wide-ranging study of Black cinema begin to echo each other — two very different works...
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Sturgill Simpson never seems entirely at home in the music industry, a vast and humming apparatus designed to shuttle songs from the hands of their...
In a sense, “Fargo” is a film noir. It belongs to that long American tradition from “The Maltese Falcon” through “Out of the Past” and...
You notice it in the least dramatic place imaginable. Not in a speech or on one of those cable-news maps, all arrows and shaded regions and ominous...
Some books move forward. Others circle. "Paradiso 17" by Hannah Lillith Assadi and "Python's Kiss" by Louise Erdrich belong to the second camp, less...
There was a moment in the 2016 presidential campaign that, in retrospect, sounds less like campaign chatter than something a post-modern French...
From Bob Dylan’s bourbon to George Clooney’s tequila, the latest liquor boom isn’t really about alcohol. It’s about storytelling — the same...
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Bill Lawrence’s new HBO series — ‘Rooster’ — turns the modern university into a laboratory for midlife reinvention, where bestselling...
Listening to "Trixies" is like cracking open an old notebook you'd forgotten in a drawer -- the handwriting younger, the ideas restless, the voice...
St. Patrick's Day is a triumph of stubborn traditions.
In "Sisters in Yellow," Kawakami plunges into murkier depths -- a brand of social realism tinged with noir, shifting focus from individual suffering...
Works by Anna Stiritz, Brent Rowley and Carrie Olsen are on view through March 27 at Boswell Mourot Fine Art. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.–5 p.m....
I was at the hardware store one recent Saturday morning, scanning replacement drainpipe in the self-service checkout. I tapped my credit card to pay...
For critics and serious moviegoers, the Academy Awards are less a verdict on greatness than a rare moment when the culture pauses to argue about what...
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When a film from far beyond Hollywood’s pull upends your sense of what movies can do, you begin to wonder how you ever thought you understood the...
Bill Callahan never needed to shout to be heard. From the tape-hiss and four-track fog of the early Smog cassettes to the more oxygenated air of his...
Whether by temperament or acquired habits, journalists spend their days taking the world apart piece by piece, poking at the gears and levers of daily...
Thirty years after publication, "Infinite Jest" has settled into the background noise of American culture, faint but unmistakable. You notice it...
"Do not obey in advance."
From full-service stations to convenience stores, the American pit stop has evolved from a quick refuel into a place to pause, eat and be briefly...
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