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One Stone at a Time
On building Jewish homes in "The Brutalist" and "A Real Pain."
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TV Critic Emily Nussbaum on the Messy, Enthralling History of Reality TV
The New Yorker writer talks about her acclaimed new book 'Cue the Sun.'
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"It Is Just So Validating to Have Books in the World"
A conversation with Amy Shearn, author of "Dear Edna Sloane," about writing fiction, the challenges of a literary career, stoned teenagers, Thomas…
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Saul Austerlitz
Cough drops and flagrant liars
Why "The Truth vs. Alex Jones" is the year's best documentary so far
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Saul Austerlitz
Every body
On the best documentary of 2023, Claire Simon's "Our Body"
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Saul Austerlitz
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