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What Is Literary Criticism For?
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes…
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How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema
Bringing a great crying scene to the big screen requires a combination of craft and empathy. This is how three…
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In Some Buildings, Dogs Go Out With the Trash
The four-legged pets are welcome, but not welcome everywhere. Their owners must carry them or use a service elevator.
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The 19th-Century Cult That Gave Rise to an Incel Assassin
Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” links President Garfield’s killer to the atmosphere of free love and religious fervor that…
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Songwriter or Star? The-Dream, Muni Long and Two Paths to the Grammys.
Ahead of the first-ever Grammy Award for songwriter of the year, two musicians who have been both headliners and behind-the-scenes…
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Two Experimental Horror Directors Discuss the Thoughts Behind the Frights
Kyle Edward Ball, the filmmaker behind “Skinamarink,” and Robbie Banfitch, who made “The Outwaters,” talk about their creepy, buzzy movies.
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A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia
The Night Falls is a tourist trap in Florida, a beautiful grotto turned into a roadside attraction where three sisters…
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‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse?
There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of…
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Storming Normandy in 1346
“Essex Dogs,” the first novel in a projected trilogy by the historian Dan Jones, imagines a hard-bitten band of mercenaries…
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Shaking Ordinary Ice (Very Hard) Transformed It Into Something Never Seen Before
The research illustrates how much scientists still have to learn about a molecule as simple as water.