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Edward Jay Epstein’s Alternative Facts
A new book suggests Snowden may have been a spy, but what it reveals is its author’s own duplicity.
Sue HalpernMarx’s Revenge
He may have lived a 19th-century life, but his ideas keep coming back with a vengeance.
Benjamin KunkelSick for Home, Nauseated by Home
The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.
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The Rise and Resilience of Black Lives Matter
Wesley Lowery’s new book charts the origins of a movement
Nathalie Baptiste
Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity
For the great urbanist and social critic, the planning of cities was always an ad hoc affair.
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Adam Thirlwell on the Many Moods of Henry Green
For the English novelist, life itself was a deadly business.
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Kerry James Marshall’s Enigmatic Authority
It seems a mistake to call him a realist in any but the loosest sense.
Barry SchwabskyThe main attraction at the Met Breuer these days is “Mastry,” the big Kerry James Marshall retrospective that has recently moved there from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and which will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this spring. But for those who went to see… Continue Reading >
Music
A Victory Lap for Run the Jewels
With the Trump presidency on the horizon, Killer Mike and El-P do what’s become customary for them: They urge us to get up and fight.
Marcus J. Moore
Cosmopolitan Pop
DJ /rupture and MIA capture the new global spirit of pop music.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The Donald Glover Experiment
Who says the comedian, actor, rapper, TV writer can’t be everything all at once?
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Films
Light and Love From Year-End Movies
Retrieve what you like, during these darkest weeks of a very dark year.
Stuart Klawans
Those Wondrous Powers
What Arrival offers is so valuable that you might almost choose to pretend that someone knew we were going to need this picture after Trump’s election.
Stuart Klawans
History on Trial, On-Screen
Challenging Holocaust deniers was messier in real life than in the new film Denial.
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Blue Wash on Linen Canvas, Believed Unfinished
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