‘Forget the Alamo’ Rewrites the Texas Myth
An entertaining deconstruction of the ‘Heroic Anglo Narrative’
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Donald Trump
Memories of the Trump Show
After four gripping and appalling seasons, how can we go back to regularly-scheduled programming?
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Barry Lyga and Publishing Friends Condemn “The Monsters Among Us”
In a petition, 500 literary professionals seek to define who gets a book deal in the post-Trump world
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Kapuściński and the Autocrats
The late Polish journalist, like no other writer, understood societies in crisis
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Simon & Schuster De-Platforms Josh Hawley
After supporting Capitol attack, Missouri Senator loses his publisher
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An Above-Average Book About Mediocre White Men
A white man edited this review that a white man wrote about a Black woman’s life’s work
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Can Joe Biden Save the Arts?
We’ve got a country, let’s put on a show
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Trump V. Borat
Moviefilm controversy for make benefit Sacha Baron Cohen
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‘Borat’ Versus the Virus
Sacha Baron Cohen pranks Rudy Giuliani, and America, in a high-concept pandemic sequel
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The Comey Drool
Showtime miniseries is more like an anti-Trump Twitter feed than a film
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Much Ado About ‘Cuties’
How GOP lawmakers came to target a French film distributed by Netflix
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Q-Anon and the Politics of Myth
‘Q: The Plan To Save The World’ is a bizarre call to arms
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Presidenting Is Hard
‘The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency,’ by John Dickerson
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Four More Books About Donald Trump
Why not 40? Or 400?
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COVID-19 Culture is the Worst in Human History
Here are some lowlights
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