arts and culture
‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
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Spring global TV series preview: The good, the bad and the ‘interesting’
April 25, 2024What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along with a few that, no matter when they arrive, would not be worth watching, and a few that have at least a...
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Byron and the ‘Satanic School’: On the bicentennial of his death
April 19, 2024The impression made on Byron by Italian and Greek revolutionaries and, not least, his personal experiences of the wars of the suffering and fighting people, led to a new socially critical awareness.
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‘Pender Denton—Outlaw’: An affecting, understated Old West gay love story
April 18, 2024The love that dared not speak its name has been shouting from the rooftops for well over half-a-century now. And in Martin David’s new book, it’s making an appearance at an even earlier time.
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Streaming TV biz 2024: AI, decreasing quantity, declining quality
April 16, 2024The industry way of portraying these cutbacks is that there’s now an emphasis on “quality over quantity.” But when one observes what is coming down the pike it’s hard not to see these cutbacks as simply...
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