Why Librarians Will Be The Last To Unmask
Public libraries, stuck in Covid time
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COVID-19
Larry David Kicks COVID to the Curb
The new season is strangely silent on the ultimate social-manners struggle of our time
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Formula One is Having a Moment
‘Drive to Survive’ has created a mania for F1 in the U.S.A.
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BFG Podcast #005: Michael Lewis, ‘Mare of Easttown’, the Golden Globes, and More
Our editor and writers discuss the week that was in culture
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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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The Arclight is Dead. It Didn’t Have to Die.
Government regulations and a scared media killed it, not the virus
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Film Critics are Still Cosplaying the Apocalypse
Pretending movie theaters are dangerous places gives them a sense of purpose
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The Alamo Drafthouse Goes Bankrupt
And it’s all your fault
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Eating Out at the Movies
With many restaurants and bars closed permanently, let’s live our day vicariously through these classic scenes
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The Last Moviegoer
A grumpy middle-aged man who smuggles Junior Mints into matinees is all that’s left for the cinema
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European Study Reminds Us: It’s Safe To Go To The Movies
Not one case of COVID-19 traced to moviegoing, anywhere in the world
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Where Are All the Movie Theater COVID Cases?
Not one reported case, anywhere in the world
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I Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies Yet
A career critic says: Stay away
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All the Stars Who’ve Had COVID-19
From the tragic to the absurd
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Stranger Than Fiction
Months into the pandemic, indie booksellers grapple with the challenges of reopening
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