Feb
08
Episodes: Errata
Hey, we've got a correction: When I said in Monday's newsletter with no equivocation that Master
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Feb
03
Episodes: Common lengths for TV seasons, ranked
One of the big debates we're having in the TV world right now is how many episodes is
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Feb
01
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
26
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
25
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
20
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
10
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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Dec
31
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
23
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
19
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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