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In Cuban Film and in Real Life, Defecting Tempts the Young
Two recent movies dramatize struggles to leave the island—just as two actors decide themselves to do so.
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Two recent movies dramatize struggles to leave the island—just as two actors decide themselves to do so.
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Both the Lakers and the Clippers were in the playoffs that year, and their games bookended the city's massive upheaval.
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'Little Broken Hearts,' her new album with Danger Mouse, shows the singer at her most wounded.
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With "Are You My Mother?," the writer examines her past, using journal entries, psychological theories, and her own memories.
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Nell Freudenberger's new novel, "The Newlyweds," tells the story of a couple that marries for practical—not romantic—reasons. Is that really such a bad idea?
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Two UK groups are storming pop with earnest paeans to teenage girls. That's actually not what Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync did.
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A conversation with Warren Littlefield, who ran NBC's entertainment division from 1993 to 1998
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The trial against a broadcaster who aired Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis' provides a test case for arts freedoms after the Arab Spring.
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The first dispatch from a newbie film director who'll be chronicling his shoot for The Atlantic
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All the algorithms in the world can't predict who will succeed and fail in pro football.
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In the year since player Sean Avery voiced his support of gay marriage, the sport has gotten more tolerant—but the fight is just beginning.
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The long-gone author who inspired 'The Raven' has 251 movie- or TV-writing credits and counting.
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The book 'Ritual America' catalogues the quirks and artifacts of Freemasons, Elks, and their ilk.
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As HD cameras gain ubiquity, arthouse flims are starting to all look the same.
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Like Mad Men's Betty and Charlotte from Sex and the City before her, Marnie is flawless on the outside but neurotic on the inside.
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'Blunderbuss' doubles down on the White Stripes' singer's long lyrical campaign against females he can't control.
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Why do lovers of literature take such joy in criticizing the critics?
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The new play explores the life of a luminary who, in the midst of a changing news culture, lost his way.
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Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the form has been the ugly stepchild of the literary world. But that's starting to change.
A lithograph of George Bellows's masterpiece is up for auction this week.
The biggest ideas of 2013, why junk food is fat's greatest foe, the real baby deadline, and more
