Feb
02
Episodes: By implication
My natural inclination as a critic is to try to hook whatever I'm watching up to some larger
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Jan
27
Episodes: Every song on Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen, ranked
A couple of weeks ago, a meme was floating around Facebook that asked what were 10 albums you loved as
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Jan
26
Episodes: Tomorrow belongs to me
Late in her life, I got to know my biological grandmother. She had immigrated to the United States in the
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Jan
21
Episodes: Little Gidding
(The first class we had after Sept. 11, my British Literature professor read us a long section from T.S.
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Jan
11
Episodes: Downfall
Buried in the middle of Lindsay Ellis's terrific dissection of the musical Rent is a particularly trenchant observation
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Jan
01
Episodes: 2016 in review
I have, since 1991 became 1992, felt a kind of keen sadness as December 31 rolls over into January 1.
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Dec
24
Episodes: The last Christmas
The way you knew my grandparents' house was close, in the dark, on a cold Christmas night, was when
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Dec
20
Episodes: War Stars
Writing on the internet means never quite knowing when you'll get swept up into the middle of a
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Dec
10
Episodes: 5 first-season shows that didn't make my top TV list but I have high hopes for
There was a lot of good TV in 2016, and a lot of that good TV was new TV. Naturally,
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Dec
08
Episodes: 5 shows I love that (probably) won't be on my year-end best TV list
It's "best of" season, and you know what that means: Lots and lots of exasperated groans
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