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What Goes Into the Grave
On celebrity deaths, the virtual reality machine that is imagination, and the foreclosing of certain possibilities.
Apr 20
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Matthew Morgan
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"After Yang": Human and Humane
How Kogonada's "After Yang" uses the artificial to explore — and celebrate — what it is to be human.
Apr 13
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Matthew Morgan
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An Unanswerable Question
How religious language helps us ask our deepest questions.
Apr 6
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Matthew Morgan
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March 2024
From the Archive: On Remembering Lost Worlds
How Wes Anderson's "spiritual adaptation" of Stefan Zweig's writing reveals the melancholy – and the danger – in nostalgia.
Mar 30
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Matthew Morgan
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"Clear": No Man Is an Island
On Carys Davies' latest novella, with a close look at its challenging and divisive ending.
Mar 23
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Matthew Morgan
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Long Live the Death of the Novel
Is literature in a uniquely precarious position in today's culture, or are worries about the state of books part of a grand tradition? And what can we…
Mar 16
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Matthew Morgan
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"Eastbound": Taking Language Seriously
In Maylis de Kerangal's novella, a conscript fleeing the army and a woman who will shelter or expose him meet on the Trans-Siberian railway.
Mar 9
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Matthew Morgan
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Looking Beneath the Surface
Is criticism simply about deciding which books to read and which films to watch, or is the critic looking for something deeper?
Mar 2
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Matthew Morgan
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February 2024
"American Fiction": An Entrée, or a Main Course?
Does Cord Jefferson's feature debut, "American Fiction", know what it wants to say or what kind of film it wants to be?
Feb 24
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Matthew Morgan
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The Written Word, Heard
Listening to audiobooks is not the same as reading. Here's why that matters – and why it doesn't.
Feb 17
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Matthew Morgan
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"Day": Surviving Pandemics & Childhood
On Michael Cunningham's new novel, "Day", how artists confront the pandemic, and whether anyone survives their childhood.
Feb 10
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Matthew Morgan
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How Art Tames Monsters
On terrorists, gallows humour, and Godzilla.
Feb 3
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Matthew Morgan
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