How Nixon Brought Himself Down
New book retells Watergate story based on transcripts of damning White House recordings
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BFG Podcast #009: ‘Forget the Alamo,’ Jean Smart, ‘Loki,’ and More!
Our editor and writers break down the week that was in culture
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‘Forget the Alamo’ Rewrites the Texas Myth
An entertaining deconstruction of the ‘Heroic Anglo Narrative’
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Sharon Stone Tells Some
Her new memoir is illuminating in places but vague in others
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‘The Unbroken Thread’
The book of arcane knowledge the techno-capitalists don’t want you to read
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The Making of ‘Midnight Cowboy’
A film lover’s film book about the strangely underrated Oscar winner
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‘The Premonition’ is Michael Lewis’s Science Fair Project
His COVID book says we didn’t social distance hard enough
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Malcolm Gladwell What-Ifs World War II
To bomb or not to bomb?
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American Publishing in Censorship Mode
Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons
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Bookstagrammers Demand Publishers Pay Up
What does the book industry owe its influencers?
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BFG Week In Review Podcast #003: Lit Controversy, Roy Andersson, ‘Shadow and Bone’ and ‘Them’
Our editor and writers break down the week in culture
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Documentary Captures the Real ‘Hemingway’
Ken Burns’s film avoids hagiography as it weighs a writer’s virtues and flaws
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Battle Over School Reading Lists Continues in Suburban Austin
PEN America joins fight after Leander ISD “pauses” book recommendations
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Writer Lauren Hough Targets Goodreads Reviews
Hough’s online supporters turned her debut memoir into a New York Times Bestseller
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BFG Podcast #002: The Book and Film Globe Week in Review Podcast
The second edition of our weekly show, which covers the cultural waterfront
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