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Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s campus drama “After the Hunt”
Adam Nayman
After the Hunt Would Like to Touch a Nerve
Director Luca Guadagnino has turned transgression into its own sort of comfort zone.
Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker in “A House of Dynamite”
Joe Cirincione
A House of Dynamite Explodes the Missile Defense Myth
It is no wonder the interceptors fail in the film. This is an accurate portrayal of what is likely to happen in a crisis.
Stephen Lurie
The Vindication of László Krasznahorkai
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature this week, at a festival in Rome earlier this year.
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The Vindication of László Krasznahorkai
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An illustration of author Elizabeth Gilbert in the clouds
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The Spiritual Appeal of Elizabeth Gilbert
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Can America Become a Democracy?
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A collage of documents from the founding of the United States
Can America Become a Democracy?
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A collage of documents from the founding of the United States
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Can America Become a Democracy?
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Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
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Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
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An illustration that imagines some of the scenes from Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket
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John Semley
An illustration that imagines some of the scenes from Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket
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Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir
A scene from the movie It Was Just an Accident
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It Was Just An Accident reckons with cruelty and repression.
A photo illustration of Augusto Pinochet half hidden by a red loop
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Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?
How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends
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