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Siri Hustvedt’s seventh novel, Memories of the Future, contains several references to Baby Face, a 1933 film…
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With The Mister, E.L. James has done a great service to the romance novel, by demonstrating just how hard it is to…
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Wesley Yang has made his name as one of the preeminent Asian-American essayists in the country. In 2008, the…
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Rebecca Traister, a journalist and leading voice on the feminist internet, has built her career on chronicling…
On Thursday, the New York Post reported that Dylan Farrow’s young adult book Hush was sold at auction to St.…
We are born, we quit comedy, we die. Sometimes, like if we produce a brilliant hit standup special along the way, we…