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Sep 16, 2025
“There was no question that we would immediately connect and fuse together, becoming inseparable,” thinks Ruth, the narrator of Stephanie Wambugu’s debut...
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Sep 3, 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson is taking another strike at Thomas Pynchon in One Battle After Another, a modern-day reworking of the reclusive author’s 1990...
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Jul 25, 2025
WHEN I WAS 20 years old at liberal arts college, I became hyperaware of my racing heartbeat at the Cleveland Cinematheque. Unfortunately, I happened to be watching Béla...
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May 27, 2025
A painter and a businessman, an emigre and an epicurean, W. Dieter Zander was an oddity typical of the shifting currents of the midcentury; his collection of six hundred...
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May 12, 2025
“We played the fool talking with long-legged words so as to mock the bastards who feed off human sorrow.” This is the mantra of Hugues and Habéké, the child...
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Feb 26, 2025
“IN MY EXPERIENCE painters are far less conventional than writers,” says Rachel Cusk in her 2014 novel Outline. Writers, hesitant about filling their novels...