Woody Allen Debuts as a Novelist: ‘What’s With Baum’
The legendary filmmaker’s first foray is lively, brilliant, familiar, worthy, and kinda true
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Conduit Books Bucks the Trend
A new publishing house wants to focus on male authors
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‘A Real Pain’: Just Your Average Millennial Generational Holocaust Trauma Buddy Comedy
The struggle is real for Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin’s cousins on a historical tour of Poland
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Slim ‘Chance’
Woody Allen’s “controversial” infidelity drama ‘Coup de Chance’ is a simplistic sigh. Maybe he’ll make another one?
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Memories of the Baseball Borscht Belt
Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg’s memoir of growing up Jewish in Newark in the 1930s
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Lessons From Milan Kundera
The Cold War is still with us in a HarperCollins reissue of essential essays by the Czech writer
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BFG Podcast #101: ‘Beau Is Afraid,’ Woody Allen Shut Out of Cannes, and Defunding Libraries
Our critics break down the culture, across the ideological spectrum
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‘Zack Hample vs. The World’
On the eve of the World Series, check out a YouTube documentary about the world’s greatest ballhawk
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The Weight of ‘Zero Gravity’
Woody Allen’s new collection is too witty to be canceled
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Wallace Shawn is Woody Allen in ‘Rifkin’s Festival’
Somehow, Allen keeps making movies
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American Publishing in Censorship Mode
Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons
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One-Sided HBO Documentary Convicts Woody Allen
Film about abuse charges doesn’t pretend to be impartial
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Cancel Culture: The Lit-World Year In Review
Most of 2020’s ‘canceled’ books are actually doing quite well, thank you
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Woody Allen Breaks Stunning New Ground in ‘A Rainy Day In New York’
Just kidding, it’s the same old schtick
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