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Phillip Maciak
TV’s Antidote to the Year of Men in Crisis
In a year defined by the newly lurid visibility of men’s problems, I was most moved by two series—
Dying for Sex
and
Andor
—that offered remarkable performances by women.
Adam Nayman
The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation
With remote locations and characters in exile, some of 2025’s biggest movies gave up on depicting social relations.
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Phillip Maciak
In
Pluribus
, Groupthink Spells the End of Art
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Phillip Maciak
In
Pluribus
, Groupthink Spells the End of Art
Books & the Arts
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Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife
Evan Kindley
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Evan Kindley
Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife
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How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
Piper French
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Piper French
How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
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How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
Piper French
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Piper French
How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups
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The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
Cass R. Sunstein
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Cass R. Sunstein
The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
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The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
Cass R. Sunstein
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Cass R. Sunstein
The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
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Jessie Kindig
Ruth Asawa Connected Everything
A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.
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Adam Nayman
Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s
Hamnet
The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.