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Adam Nayman
Sentimental Value
Is an Upper-Middle-Brow Crowd Pleaser
Joachim Trier’s skillful, literate movies tick a lot of boxes.
Adam Nayman
Guillermo del Toro’s
Frankenstein
Plays It Too Safe
The Netflix movie, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is lavish and meticulous—and strangely hollow.
Walker Rutter-Bowman
Muriel Spark and the Doppelgänger That Wasn’t
Walker Rutter-Bowman
Muriel Spark and the Doppelgänger That Wasn’t
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The Spiritual Appeal of Elizabeth Gilbert
Laura Kipnis
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Laura Kipnis
The Spiritual Appeal of Elizabeth Gilbert
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Can America Become a Democracy?
Patrick Iber
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Patrick Iber
Can America Become a Democracy?
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Can America Become a Democracy?
Patrick Iber
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Patrick Iber
Can America Become a Democracy?
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Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
John Semley
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John Semley
Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
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Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
John Semley
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John Semley
Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
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Adam Nayman
Jafar Panahi’s Revenge Road Trip Masterpiece
It Was Just An Accident
reckons with cruelty and repression.
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Andre Pagliarini
Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?
How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends
