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‘Syncopations’: American Lit Scene Through a Wide Lens
The Scot is a critic of uncommonly wide interests in the American scene.
Kids CD Evokes ‘Soul Train,’ and With Good Reason
There just aren’t enough R&B, gospel, funk, or hip hop albums for kids!
Rex Parker’s Crossword Blog for Experts, Cheaters
Whether you bang out Friday puzzles and know a four-letter toiletry product is (almost) always “ATRA” or mull over Sunday puzzles for days, you'll dig the clue-by-clue musings of this blog.
Albert Camus Characteristically Heavy in His ‘Notebooks’
One of the pleasures of this edition of Albert Camus’s late-life notebooks is in skipping around...
Dinosaurs, Nasty As Kids Want ‘Em, in ‘Jurassic Fight Club’
The blow dealt to the collective dinosaur image by paleontologists announcing that T. Rex was probably a scavenger is parried with this series and its CGI re-creations of dinos battling.
Author Phenom Brunonia Barry Takes Salem to the Beach
Brunonia Barry’s novel—the first of three books this year about her spooky hometown of Salem—concerns a family of fortune-tellers, not witches.
Roots of Ritual Breast-Baring Exposed in Indie Doc
David Redmon's indie documentary contrasts the wild revelry of Mardi Gras with the hardworking girls who make breast-shaped beads (a popular new line) in Fuzhou, China.
Personal Growth: ‘Heirloom,’ a Tomato Farmer’s Tale
This onetime management consultant's memoir is part ecofoodie tract and part wish fulfillment for any urbanite who's gazed enviously at the enlightened produce purveyors in the city's Greenmarkets.
‘Ravel’ Exquisitely Details Titular Composer’s Final Days
Jean Echenoz’s novel evokes the last days of French composer Maurice Ravel.
Yep: ‘Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With Godmother’
Griselda Blanco isn't just Miami's Godmother, she's so evil she comes off as a South Beach Voldemort.
New Sugarland Love Songs Sweeter, Scrappier Than Ever
Sugarland's third disc, recorded live in the studio, captures the band’s grittier concert sound.
Paul Auster’s Great New York Trilogy Rematerializes
Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy — a group of three meta-fictional detective novels published in the mid-eighties — are undisputed cult classics.
Classic Bowie Bootleg Records Landing of Ziggy Stardust
And it is that rare "lost" album that deserves being sought out.
Leonard Susskind Tears Stephen Hawking a New One
Science stars Leonard Susskind and Stephen Hawking squabbled for years over whether or not energy is destroyed in a black hole.
Nico Muhly Convenes Literature, Electronica, and More
The restlessly creative (and constantly commissioned) composer Nico Muhly continues along his rigorously offbeat path on his second album.
Tikatok: Kids Create Picture Books Online. You Buy ‘Em
Small aspiring authors thrill at the possibilities of this site, which lets writer-illustrator kids build, share, and win kudos for their picture books.
Norman Mailer’s Timely Take on ‘68 Conventions Reissued
These essay have lost none of their urgency.
‘Love Triangle’ Far Oversimplifies ‘The Romantics’
The novel turns the unwritten rule that a friend's ex is off limits on its head.
‘Chop Shop’: New York Neorealism in the Shadow of Shea
The ugliest part of Queens — Willets Point, or “The Iron Triangle” — never looked so stunning as it does in Ramin Bahrani’s neo–New York–realist film.
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