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Steven Millhauser Brings Kafka to Connecticut

August 29, 2023September 4, 2023 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Bernard Groethuysen, Disruptions, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Steven Millhauser

‘Disruptions,’ a book of short stories where “Kafkaesque” moral ambiguity transcends time and geography

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Memories of the Baseball Borscht Belt

June 20, 2023June 21, 2023 Jon Hart 0 Comments Jerry Izenberg, Neil Simon, Philip Roth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Woody Allen

Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg’s memoir of growing up Jewish in Newark in the 1930s

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American Publishing in Censorship Mode

May 7, 2021March 15, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Blake Bailey, Dav Pilkey, Dr. Seuss, Jonathan Karp, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Philip Roth, Simon & Schuster, W.W. Norton, Woody Allen

Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons

The Plot Against America

The Plot Against Binge-Watching

March 25, 2020March 27, 2020 Jonpaul Henry Guinn 0 Comments Anthony Boyle, Asymmetry, David Simon, Ed Burns, John Turturro, Lisa Halliday, Morgan Spector, Philip Roth, The Great British Baking Show, The Plot Against America, The Wire, Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan

‘The Plot Against America’ is excellent. But is this what you want to be watching right now?

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The Plot Against Having Sex With Old Philip Roth

December 10, 2018June 15, 2019 Neal Pollack 6 Comments Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday, Philip Roth

‘Asymmetry,’ By Lisa Halliday

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V.S. Naipaul, 1932-2018

August 14, 2018August 16, 2018 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Dick Cavett, Gore Vidal, Janet Flanner, Joseph Conrad, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Norman Mailer, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

A born fighter, who resisted identity politics his whole career, has died

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‘Power to the People’: John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s NYC Rent Party on the Big Screen

April 24, 2026April 26, 2026 Jim Allen 1

Expanded footage of a historic benefit show is manna for Beatlemaniacs

Featured Stories FILM Netflix Streaming

‘IF’: Imaginary Friends and Real Ryan Reynoldses

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026 Robert Dean 0

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In ‘Cinematic Immunity,’ Film Crews Get the Final Edit

April 14, 2026April 17, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0

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Plastic is Shrinking America’s Dicks

April 12, 2026April 17, 2026 Dan Friedman 0

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