'The Worst Person In The World' is a achingly precise portrait of young adulthood
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In Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's film, Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a young woman who can't decide who she is. As she finds out,...
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Friday, 4 February 2022
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'The Worst Person In The World' is a achingly precise portrait of young adulthood
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In Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's film, Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a young woman who can't decide who she is. As she finds out,...
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
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Si-fi, fantasy and crime fiction blend in 'Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century'
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Kim Fu's book contains 12 stories that peel away layers of normalcy to reveal weird, creepy things; though very different from each oth...
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'Pam & Tommy' are sympathetic figures in an infamous culture war
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A new mini-series starring Seth Rogen, Lily James, and Sebastian Stan seeks to reassess the spectacle surrounding the infamous Pam Anderson...
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
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For the Asian diaspora, Lunar New Year is different depending on who you ask
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While Lunar New Year traditions have been carried on for years in Asia, festivities for members of the Asian diaspora have evolved as celeb...
Saturday, 29 January 2022
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'Wait Wait' for Jan. 29, 2022: With Not My Job guest Jeremy O. Harris
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Jeremy O. Harris is one of the world's most exciting playwrights, whose Slave Play netted a record-setting 12 Tony nominations. We inv...
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'Open' explores polyamorous relationships through personal experience
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Bustle editor Rachel Krantz's memoir is a sincere and curious reckoning with the cultural messaging we all receive about gendered expe...
Friday, 28 January 2022
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Strap in for highs and lows with the pandemic novel 'How High We Go in the Dark'
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One character is an aimless young man works at a euthanasia theme park for terminally ill kids, placing them on the roller coaster that wil...
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On 'The Afterparty,' a high school reunion really can kill you
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The Apple TV+ show might not be as riotous as its roster of comedy stars would suggest, but it's an entertaining murder mystery. (Imag...
Thursday, 27 January 2022
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A young nurse investigates murders in 18th century China in 'The Red Palace'
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June Hur's history-based novel binds fiction to fact in a gripping young adult mystery. A nurse in 18th century Korea's royal court...
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'Anatomy' is a gothic love story stirring up mystery and medicine
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In Dana Schwartz's novel, it's 1817 and Lady Hazel, set to marry a cousin, just wants to study medicine. She meets a boy who helps ...
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
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'Honor' is a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world
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Thrity Umrigar's novel is about India's humanitarian crisis — with its depictions of misogyny and scenes of public shaming, mistrea...
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Tanya Tagaq's powerful new album 'Tongues' aims for hope among hard truths
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Tagaq, a recipient of the national Polaris Music Prize, discusses the subjugation of Canada's Indigenous people and her hopes for heali...
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A true crime writer struggles with his responsibility to the victims in 'Devil House'
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Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about...
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
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They didn't get the Newbery or Caldecott but these kids' authors won big this year
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The American Library Association handed out nearly two dozen awards for kids' books this week. We look at some of the winners. (Image c...
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'And I say, Hey! HEY!' Aardvark Arthur's wonderful new days are ending
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The world-famous aardvark first appeared in print over 45 years ago. The Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV show is about to begin its 25th ...
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Wajahat Ali's 'Go Back To Where You Came From' is biting and funny and full of heart
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Ali's memoir is intelligent and incisive in its arguments against "whiteness" but focuses, too, on hope and heart — calling f...
Sunday, 23 January 2022
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Omicron hampers Broadway. Fewer tourists are there for just a score of shows
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Tickets may be easier and cheaper to get for the plays that are still open. Some producers reopened until the virus raced through the cast ...
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Author Imani Perry explores the South to reveal the soul of America
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Imani Perry discusses what it meant to write a book about her own home, and why the South is so important to comprehend the rest of the nat...
Saturday, 22 January 2022
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'Wait Wait' for Jan. 22, 2022: With Not My Job guest Brian Cox
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Brian Cox is one of the world's most celebrated actors, and is currently perfecting the art of swearing as Logan Roy on HBO's Succe...
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