Woody Allen’s latest travelogue is sprightlier than you’d expect.
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Pixar’s Take on Kafka
Brave tackles the Scottish countryside and family tensions in a poignant—if slightly by-the-books—way.
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The Blander Bush
HBO’s 41 asks none of the hard questions about George H.W. Bush’s uninspired career
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The West Coast of Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Science Fiction of Hope
If any political ideal has taken a drubbing over the past hundred years, it’s surely the left’s vision of utopia. How far we’ve fallen from those lofty 19th-century dreams—the classless society, the withering away of the state, the happy news from Nowhere. Merely to mention such hopes nowadays is to call up ghastly images of […]
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Math is Hard v. I Wanna Be an Engineer!
Okay, girls, let’s hear you sing it: I wanna be an engineer!
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What the F@%& Is Up With Stephen King?
Move aside, Mr. Buffett. There’s a new kid on the block.Â
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The Madwoman in the Attic
What happened to the former slaves and slaveowners after emancipation—British emancipation, that is?
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Judges as Defendants, Directors as Judges
The Law in These Parts asks tough questions about the role of the courts in Israeli settlement policy.
