‘The 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History’
The Secrets of BoomChicago–in book form
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The Movement To Defund Public Libraries Picks Up Steam
Conservative legislators, in the heat of a culture war, seem increasingly willing to starve library systems of funds
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Dark Web Detectives
‘Tracers in the Dark,’ a gripping narrative about the sinister world of blockchain crime
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Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ tells a brutal Holocaust tale
British playwright’s wrenching discovery of his Jewish roots
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The Dark Word Podcast #06: Alma Katsu
Alaskan horror writer speaks to Philip Fracassi about The Fervor
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Reading Dostoyevsky Is No Crime
Italian university threatens to cancel Russian literature as response to war, then backs down
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When the Knicks Were Good
‘Blood In The Garden’ chronicles the almost-best team of the 1990s
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The Execution and Un-Execution Of Norman Mailer
Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere
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Big Wheel Keeps On Turnin’
Amazon’s ‘Wheel of Time’ adaptation, lush and a little self-serious
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BFG Podcast #018: YA Books, ‘Candyman,’ and ‘The Chair’
Our editor and writers break down the week in culture
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Why Are Live-Action Sitcoms Making Animated Specials?
PEN15 joins a growing list
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Blow Canada
‘The Twentieth Century,’ the year’s weirdest, funniest, most repulsive fake German Expressionist biopic about Canadian history
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The Dark Vision of Stanley Donwood’s ‘Bad Island’
If Radiohead cover art were a wordless graphic novel
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Seven Movies About Living Under Political Conflict
Nothing we’re going through is new
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The XFL Is Back
Should You Care?
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