Dennis Broe
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Culture
Coming undone: ‘The Undoing,’ ‘Big Sky,’ ‘The Deceived’ and the limits of MeToo
December 16, 2020“The rich are different,” said Fitzgerald, in a languishing dreamy tone. “Yes,” replied Hemingway brusquely, “they have more money.”
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Culture
Left on the dial—alternative TV and Podcasts
December 10, 2020The U.S. election has finally been secured with even Donald Trump almost tacitly acknowledging that he lost.
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Culture
John Brown’s maid: Brown as buffoon in ‘The Good Lord Bird’ vs. Brown as radical in ‘Underground’
December 7, 2020The last two episodes of Ethan Hawkes' recounting of the John Brown story have some emotional resonance.
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Culture
5G and ‘Biohackers’: Technology rules! (Is that a good thing?)
November 30, 2020What could go wrong? Plenty, say 5G critics in France.
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News
France bans citizens from filming and identifying violent police officers
November 25, 2020Report from France: Shooting the messenger, especially the one who’s filming you.
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Culture
‘Lovecraft Country’: Liberating 1950s apartheid America one monster at a time
November 20, 2020It’s now a done deal with the series already out in its entirety, but the best pilot and one of the best shows of the year is HBO’s Lovecraft Country.
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Culture
Today’s noir novel in Europe: Popular novelists from France and Iceland
October 13, 2020Dominique Manotti is a Parisian professor of economic history who writes about crime from a historical and global perspective.
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Culture
‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’
September 15, 2020All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.
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