CULTURE
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Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women
In “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee’s best-selling début novel, the protagonist, Casey Han, is the ambitious daughter of…
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We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
I think the same principles apply, right? It’s just that we have to make sure that the government stays out…
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A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work…
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Independents’ Days: Standouts from Sundance 2025
I’ve never been to Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival takes place, but for years I’ve been going…
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The Not-Quite-Anti-Woke Caucus | The New Yorker
Adam Smith is a standard boomer Democrat—born in 1965, technically a year after the generational cutoff, but he still uses…
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How to Understand the Reagan Airport Crash
It took the social-media site X about an hour to reach consensus on the cause of the midair collision over…
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The Other Side of Sherman’s March
The second hour of “Gone with the Wind,” the bold, almost brazenly romantic Civil War epic that won ten Academy…
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The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds…
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Trump Is Already Drowning Us in Outrages
Exhausted yet? It’s been three full days since Donald Trump returned to the Presidency, and so far he has pulled…
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