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366 Days, 366 Books
I made a New Year’s resolution to read a book a day in 2012. In 2013, you can too.
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25 Years of Prozac, 100 Years of Crosswords
All your 2013 anniversary coverage, previewed in 2012.
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The Perfect Classical Music App
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s The Orchestra puts the Philharmonia on your iPad—in very clever ways.
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How Hollywood Gets Bloggers Wrong
From Gossip Girl to The Newsroom, movies and TV shows have no idea how blogging actually works.
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Angie’s Leg, Sarcastic Rover, and Romney’s Binders
The year in review, as told by Twitter parody accounts.
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Does Zero Dark Thirty Advocate Torture?
How to understand the film’s controversial stand on waterboarding and the hunt for Bin Laden.
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David Chase Doesn’t Care About the Russian
The Sopranos creator on the finale, the “Pine Barrens” episode, and instincts, in an excerpt from Alan Sepinwall’s new book.
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The Power of Powers of Ten
How the Eames’ experimental film changed the way we look at Chicago—and the universe.
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It’s the Lifetime Movies That Got Small
Liz and Dick isn’t half as weird, alas, as the actual Liz and Dick.
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This Is Not an Artwork
A thought-provoking exhibition of artwork deemed, by insurance companies, no longer art.
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Flirting With Disaster
David O. Russell’s movies are about anger and insanity lurking just beneath our placid surfaces.
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The Great American Unproduced Screenplay
Three Oscar nominees are the latest to try their hand at Edward Ford, a masterpiece despite the fact—because of the fact?—that it has never been filmed.
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The Trendiest Guy in New York City
I slept with 30 pillows, wore my hair in a “man bun,” and waxed my pubic hair, all thanks to New York Times trend stories.
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Don’t Give in to Hate
How a child of the original Star Wars trilogy learned to love the prequels—and why we should all look forward to Episode VII.
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Thomas Jefferson Was Not a Monster
Debunking a major new biography of our third president.
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The Return of Leos Carax
Holy Motors—one of the best movies of the year—will make you long for the movies the French auteur never made.
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The Three Robert Leightons
Behind the scenes at To Tell the Truth, the last of the great New York game shows.
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Why I’m Vibe-Watching American Horror Story
Critics who fault the FX show for unoriginality—or incoherence—aren’t letting themselves enjoy its real delights.
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