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Murakami
CREATORS Featured Stories FICTION Writers 

The Empathy of Haruki Murakami

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Haruki Murakami, Ozamu Dazi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima

Japan’s most famous writer looks at the COVID-19 crisis from the viewpoint of ordinary people

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The Stand
FICTION TELEVISION 

‘The Stand’ Doesn’t Deliver

January 14, 2021January 19, 2021 Scott Gold 1 Comment Alexander Skarsgard, Gary Sinise, Heather Graham, James Marsden, Jovan Adepo, Molly Ringwald, Odessa Young, Owen Teague, Randall Flagg, Rob Lowe, Stephen King, The Stand, Whoopi Goldberg

‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ is absent in CBS All Access reboot of Stephen King’s apocalypse saga. So is linear narrative.

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Sally Rooney
CREATORS FICTION Writers 

Literary Twitter Goes Rooney Tunes Over New Sally Rooney Novel Announcement

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amber Sparks, Beautiful World Where Are You, Brandon Taylor, Elisa Gabbert, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Hulu, Lorrie Moore, Mitzi Angel, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Buy stock in Kleenex for September 2021

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Concrete Rose
FICTION Young Adult 

‘Concrete Rose’: a Compassionate Prequel to ‘The Hate U Give’

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose, The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas’s love letter to Black boys everywhere

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Disrupt Texts
FICTION Politics 

Disrupt Texts’ Radical Agenda

January 4, 2021January 11, 2021 Jamie Mason 0 Comments #disruptexts, Disrupt Texts, Heather Levine, Lorena German, The Odyssey, William Shakespeare

A more inclusive curriculum? Or ad-hoc social engineering?

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Cancel Culture
CREATORS FICTION NON-FICTION Politics Writers 

Cancel Culture: The Lit-World Year In Review

December 29, 2020January 4, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Abigail Shrier, American Dirt, Apropos Of Nothing, J.K. Rowling, Jeanne Cummins, Jordan Peterson, Joseph Epstein, Julie Burchill, Marisa Corvisiero, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency, Woody Allen

Most of 2020’s ‘canceled’ books are actually doing quite well, thank you

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Jim Carrey
Actors CREATORS FICTION FILM NON-FICTION TELEVISION 

Jim Carrey: The Year In Review

December 28, 2020January 4, 2021 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Dana Vachon, Jim Carrey, Joe Biden, Memoirs and Misinformation, Nicolas Cage, Saturday Night Live, Sonic the Hedgehog

A three-media push in 2020 from our weirdest entertainer

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Westerns
CLASSICS FICTION FILM 

Western Roundup

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Alan Ladd, John Wayne, Shane, The Library of America, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Searchers, Warlock

The Library of America finally acknowledges the Western novel. What took them so long?

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King Arthur
FICTION FILM 

Is It Time To Kill King Arthur?

December 22, 2020December 28, 2020 Jim Arndorfer 0 Comments By Force Alone, Cursed, Frank Miller, Guy Ritchie, Henry Treece, Katherine Langford, King Arthur, Lavie Tidhar, Nimue, Pendragon, The Great Captains, The Many-Headed Hydra

The myth has run its course

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Amis
CREATORS FICTION Writers 

‘Inside Story’, or is Martin Amis Just Hedging?

December 21, 2020December 24, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Christopher Hitchens, Evelyn Waugh, Inside Story, John Updike, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

Hiding your opinions of famous writers as “fiction” is a cop-out

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John le Carré
FICTION FILM Remembrance Writers 

John le Carré’s Spies Were the anti-James Bond

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments American Pie, Danielle McDonald, George Smiley, James Bond, John le Carré, No Time To Die, The Looking-Glass War, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

His novels transcended genre

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le Carré
adblock CREATORS FICTION Writers 

RIP John le Carré (1931-2020)

December 13, 2020December 14, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments adblock, Agent Running In The Field, George Smiley, John le Carré, Smiley's People, The Little Drummer Girl, The Night Manager, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The writer comes in from the cold

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FICTION NON-FICTION 

The Best Books of 2020

December 9, 2020December 15, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Avi Steinberg, Brian Washington, David Mitchell, Devolution, Josh Malerman, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Kim Stanley Robinson, M.R. Carey, Malorie, MARK LANEGAN, Max Brooks, Memorial, The Book of Kofi, The Happily Ever After, The Ministry For the Future, The Undocumented Americans, Utopia Avenue

Nine critics name their favorite books to guide your holiday shopping

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CREATORS FICTION Writers 

Christopher Golden Brings the Pain

December 8, 2020 Philip Fracassi 0 Comments

The author discusses his newest novel, Red Hands, a thrilling horror show of pandemic proportions

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Ready Player Two
FICTION 

Ready Player Two Gets DCMA’ed

December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ballantine Books, Ernest Cline, Laura Hudson, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two

Publisher removes excerpts of the novel from Twitter as users turn it into a meme

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Murakami
CREATORS Featured Stories FICTION Writers 

The Empathy of Haruki Murakami

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Michael Washburn 0

Japan’s most famous writer looks at the COVID-19 crisis from the viewpoint of ordinary people

MLK/FBI
DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM 

‘MLK/FBI’ Skips the Money Shot

January 18, 2021January 19, 2021 Neal Pollack 0
WandaVision
Featured Stories TELEVISION 

‘WandaVision’ Marks the Beginning of the Post-TV Era

January 16, 2021January 18, 2021 Neal Pollack 0
Cobra Kai
Featured Stories TELEVISION 

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3: What Went Wrong?

January 11, 2021January 12, 2021 Neal Pollack 1

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