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People say America is trapped in nostalgia, though that diagnosis seems to be lazy cultural shorthand that sounds persuasive until you start poking...
One of my earliest memories is an embroidered patch on the sleeve of my father's flight suit.
There was a period, roughly from "The Black Dahlia" through "American Tabloid," when reading James Ellroy felt like discovering that somebody had...
Frank Lloyd Wright taught Americans to see buildings. Keith Haring believed art required no secret handshake. Their shared faith in ordinary curiosity...
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One of the occupational hazards of music criticism is the tendency to overvalue the new. Every Friday arrives carrying another stack of releases...
What makes “The Shootist” endure is its fascination with the distance between the stories people tell about a man and the man himself.
As America approaches its 250th birthday next month, the country seems gripped by a familiar form of existential anxiety.
From Roger Kahn and Roger Angell to Jim Bouton, Bill James and Philip Roth, the best baseball books are rarely just about the game. They are about...
Maybe you don't know anything about guitars. You might still recognize a Fender Stratocaster. It's an iconic design.
Every generation eventually rewrites George Washington, which tells you less about Washington than about the country doing the rewriting.
By the Reagan era, Hollywood had decided that upper-middle-class life was just what America looked like on a Tuesday. The illusion stuck around longer...
Democrat-Gazette online
Coinbase's head of security offers tips for companies to secure themselves against a new bread of AI threats.
Recently David Letterman was talking with Bill Simmons about television and landed on a surprisingly emotional subject: ESPN's "Pardon the...
Criterion’s superb new 4K release of Lawrence Kasdan’s neo-noir revives one of the last genuinely adult Hollywood thrillers — a movie about...
War movies used to appear with such frequency and seriousness they felt woven into the American idea of itself. They arrived every year carrying not...
What makes "Freedom Round the Globe" especially valuable right now is that it resists two temptations simultaneously: patriotic simplification and...
If you read enough history, you eventually notice civilizations don't run on laws alone. Laws matter. Armies and economies too. But memory--the...
Americans once documented experience after it happened. Increasingly, documentation has become part of the experience.
This week's books seem oddly preoccupied with things societies try to sink, pave over or explain away. All three circle the same uneasy idea: History...
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As Drake floods the streaming zone with three simultaneous albums, Kevin Morby, Rostam, Peter Frampton, 49 Winchester and Willie Nelson make stronger...
As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival heads into its final weekend, one of the most talked-about resurrection stories in Cannes Classics has not involved...
My grand-niece recently texted me an invitation to her college graduation. My mother—who oversees all divisions of the family operation requiring...
"Boring Asian Female"Comparison might be the thief of joy, but in Canwen Xu's debut "Boring Asian Female," it has metastasized into a way of life.
Recently a launch monitor informed me, politely but conclusively, that I am no longer the golfer I used to be.
Sixty years after Brian Wilson turned studio pop inward, outward and upside down, The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ remains less a nostalgic artifact...
Andy Beta’s ‘Cosmic Music’ argues that the pianist, harpist and spiritual visionary was never merely adjacent to jazz greatness. The culture...
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Netflix’s anthology reinvention ‘Beef’ trades the first season’s operatic chaos for something sharper and more unsettling.
The worthwhile music bio-pics understand that musicians are often not reliable narrators of their own lives. Neither are managers, estates, fans,...
Our dogs are better known than we are.
Douglas Stuart’s “John of John” explores inheritance, repression and the burdens fathers pass to sons, while Alice Hoffman’s “The Best Dog...
We thought about driving to Mississippi last week to meet my 89-year-old mother and her posse--Aunt Lois and Uncle Ken, and Paula and Gerald, who...
While conventional wisdom might have Ringo as underrated rock drummer and a decent bloke, he was also perhaps the wisest and most grounded member of...
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Season two of ‘Criminal Record’ turns the crime procedural inside out, asking not what happened but who gets to decide what counts.
He wrote great country songs and lived the mythology. He also made records that many listeners still find indefensible. Any honest obituary has to...
I have lately appointed myself the god of small things, our household's chief piddler. It's not an especially demanding portfolio--mostly I run...
Two recently published books circle the same question from opposite directions: How do you recognize where you stand? In "Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt...
The unseen shooter never got past the first ring of security. Shots were fired two stories up. The sound carried just enough to trigger a reaction....
In Antoine Fuqua's movie "Michael," everything is polished and pressed, the beats familiar, the arc pre-approved. Childhood: rough. Talent: obvious....
New biography of Alan R. Moritz traces how forensic science learned to define what it can — and cannot — know.
Call it the Clash of 1976 — not a roster but a diagnosis. A culture realizing it has more than one argument on its hands and refusing to settle it.
Rob Moritz, a former reporter who covered Arkansas politics for Stephens Media and now teaches journalism at the University of Central Arkansas, came...
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As studios drift from discs, boutique labels step in — Criterion restores ‘Stray Dog’ to full voice while Arrow reclaims ‘Blue Thunder’ and...
“The Battle of Algiers,” released in 1966, isn’t about terrorism, colonialism or insurgency in the tidy way a term paper is about its topic....
I went through a box of books I hadn't opened since we moved six years ago, intending to send a stack to the neighborhood Little Free Library or to...
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