Paramount Minus
After a sale fell through, Paramount is clear-cutting jobs and content. But a bizarre earnings call casts doubt as to whether the studio is salvageable.
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Master of Puppets
We’re trying to figure out what Netflix’s ‘Eric’ is actually about
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Flat ‘Tires’
Shane Gillis mania ends immediately with a very unfunny Netflix sitcom
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David E. Kelley Book-Murders ‘A Man In Full’
The well-dressed ghost of Tom Wolfe hangs his head in shame at this adaptation
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Weird Movies About Rabbits for Easter
Our bunny friends have inspired some very strange cinema
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Zukiswa Wanner Did Not Need To Return Her Goethe Medal
South African writer’s rejection of prestigious literary prize over Israel-Hamas conflict shows questionable judgment
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‘Shōgun’ Brilliantly Depicts the Rise of Modern Japan
New miniseries captures the realities of a society poised between tradition and engagement with the world
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‘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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