Articles
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Frederick Wiseman in Paradise
Posted: December 1, 2023At ninety-three, the filmmaker has just released a new documentary about a French restaurant. In his work, institutions develop a soul, even an unconscious.
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The Making of Norman Mailer
Posted: December 19, 2022The young man went to war and became a novelist. But did he ever really come back?
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The Lockdown Lessons of “Crime and Punishment”
Posted: June 22, 2020A college class weathering the pandemic finds Dostoyevsky’s savage inwardness and apocalyptic feverishness uncomfortably resonant.
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Harry Houdini and the Art of Escape
Posted: March 23, 2020Why do the magician’s tricks and triumphs still fascinate us?