This year's Best Picture nominees, ranked
Emily and Lily go through the hits and skips (well, mostly hits) of this year's race for the top Oscar.
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Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood
Why do people love Daniel Kraus' novels? Maybe it's because he's not afraid of a big metaphor.
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Plus: The e-book of Woodworking is on sale too? Remember Woodworking?
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Seven
This week: the enthralling and the exhausting kind of become one singular thing.
Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era (preview)
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