Smart and Sweet
Colin Farrell stars in ‘Sugar,’ a well-made and old-fashionedly entertaining detective series on Apple+
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Author: Christopher Farnsworth
All About the Benjamin
Apple TV’s historical drama ‘Franklin’ is a visually lush but narratively dull look at a pivotal time in a founding father’s life
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‘The Maniac’
Benjamin Labatut’s novel about John von Neumann, “the smartest man alive” (in his time), reveals some unsettling and surprising truths about AI
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Farewell to ‘The Venture Bros.’
The greatest show Adult Swim ever produced says goodbye in an epic movie
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Cormac McCarthy Is Dead
A poet of violence and horror goes peacefully into the sunset
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Superman Has Left the Building
‘Illuminations’ by Alan Moore, a warning about our comics-obsessed culture
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One More Big Score
‘Heat 2,’ a note-perfect book sequel to one of the greatest heist films of all time
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Daniel Pinkwater is Still Going
‘Crazy In Poughkeepsie’, the latest novel from the original writer of books about weird outsider teens
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‘Slow Horses’ is a Near-Perfect Adaptation
Apple+ gives Mick Herron’s spy novels the royal treatment
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Checkout Time
‘The Paradox Hotel’ is an inventive but ultimately frustrating time-travel novel
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Our 2021 Holiday Geek Gift Guide
The best stuff of the year for the comics nerd in your life
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The Immortal Story of ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’
If we’re all going to die, we might as well go out reading Anthony Doerr’s new novel
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‘UTube’ Breaks None of the Rules
A sadistic paint-by-numbers police procedural novel out of Malaysia
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All the Slow Horses
‘Slough House’, the seventh book in Mick Herron’s series about disgraced exiles from British intelligence
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The World Needs ‘Adventureman’
Image Comics pays tribute to pulp heroes of the past
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