Books
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Alan Alda on ‘M*A*S*H’: ‘Everybody Had Something Taken From Them’
When we think of the default mode of much of contemporary television — mingling the tragic and the offhand, broad…
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The Eight Film Festival Movies That Got the Biggest Awards Boost
Who are the front-runners, the dark horses and the long shots? After major film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto,…
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‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain
If you have seen “X,” Ti West’s ingenious and heartfelt pastiche of ’70s horror and hard-core pornography, you know that…
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‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision
The usual way of making a documentary about a famous, no-longer-living popular musician is to weave talking-head interviews (with colleagues…
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R. Kelly Convicted in Sex Abuse Case Involving Videos of a Teenage Girl
CHICAGO — R. Kelly, the fallen R&B star once revered as a product of this city’s South Side, was convicted…
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God Loves a Show: Religious Satires Reveal the Art of Acting Faithful
In church satires there’s always a scene in which a ritual, tradition or show of faith becomes a grand spectacle.…
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A New Ariel Inspires Joy for Young Black Girls: ‘She Looks Like Me’
At first, all you see is the swish of an iridescent tale and a flash of red hair. She glides…
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Alan Cumming Uses Dance to Get at the Truth of Robert Burns
GLASGOW — Rain pours down, thunder growls, lightning flickers. Fragments of melancholy melody emerge from the tumult, and a lone,…
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These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault
MAGNIFICENT REBELSThe First Romantics and the Invention of the SelfBy Andrea Wulf494 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. The grand title…
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Read Your Way Through Helsinki
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronFinns love to read: It’s their favorite thing to do in their time off. The country is a little…