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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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Cough drops and flagrant liars
Why "The Truth vs. Alex Jones" is the year's best documentary so far
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Every body
On the best documentary of 2023, Claire Simon's "Our Body"
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"40 Years Ahead of the Game"
A brief word with Ridley Scott on the making of "Blade Runner"
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Get in Loser, We're Reading a Book
A conversation with Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, the author of the new book "So Fetch"
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Braugher laughs!
Missing one of the great actors--comic and dramatic--of our era
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Mixed Blessings
How do you promote an Israeli movie in a time of war?
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It Started Out Like a Song
How "Merrily We Roll Along" got personal for me
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I Had to Tell it
Nicole Holofcener's "You Hurt My Feelings" and the fragility of creation
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Everyone's friend
On grief and Matthew Perry
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The punctum
Glimpses of the kidnapped in Israel
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"If It Wasn't Hard, Everyone Would Do It"
An interview with Erin Carlson, author of No Crying in Baseball
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