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Cathal Duane Paul McCartney Can’t Stop Making People Happy
Now 76, with a new album, the pop legend continues to delight and comfort the world with his music.
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Mara Vivat / Getty How To Write About Royalty
In 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, the author Craig Brown captures Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister perfectly.
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Katie Martin; Adult Swim The Cartoon That Captures the Damaged American Male
Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored.
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Erica Parise / SHOWTIME Jim Carrey Masters His Act in Kidding
In a new Showtime series, the actor delivers the same gripping performance that’s been characteristic of his career: moving, thoughtful, and maniacal.
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Kristian Buus / Getty Viv Albertine’s Got Something to Say
For her second memoir, the irreverent punk icon mixes a bit of vulnerability with a lot of grit.
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Rob Baker Ashton The Unlikely Harmony Between Iggy Pop and Underworld
Two musical giants collide in Teatime Dub Encounters to produce a fascinating dialogue between old-school rock and New Age electronic.
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Ryan Olbrysh The Wisdom of Russell Brand
The comedian-actor’s interview podcast, Under the Skin, is a fascinating listen that channels its host’s energy and interests in surprisingly productive ways
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Jesse Lenz Live-Streaming the Apocalypse With NRATV
The online-streaming service of the National Rifle Association is part lifestyle channel, part gun-lobby orifice—and it wants to make you buy firearms.
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Audun Rikardsen / BBC The Beauty and Horror of Blue Planet II
David Attenborough’s latest documentary gorgeously reveals the world’s oceans—and shows how badly humans are screwing them up.
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Jason Raish A Mind-Bending Translation of the New Testament
David Bentley Hart’s text recaptures the awkward, multivoiced power of the original.
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Dushan Milic How Michael Clayton Presaged 2017
Ten years after the film’s release, the world has caught up to its bleak vision.
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Mark J. Rebilas / Reuters When McGregor Faced Mayweather
In the end, the much hyped fight played out as it was destined to.
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André Carrilho The Whitest Music Ever
Prog rock was audacious, innovative—and awful.
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Sam Taylor What Inspired the Summer of Love?
Mostly drugs.
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St. Francis Elevator Ride How Twin Peaks Invented Modern Television
As a long-belated Season 3 arrives, a look back at the immeasurably influential series
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Gizem Vural Poet on the Edge
Indiana-born, Twitter-savvy, and Millennially mischievous, Patricia Lockwood taps into the temper of the times.
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Image Comics Beowulf Is Back!
What’s behind the running pop-culture engagement with the epic poem?
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Bettmann / Getty A Saint for Difficult People
From bohemian to radical to Catholic activist, Dorothy Day devoted her life to the poor, however unlovable.
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Nigel Buchanan The Ninja Cure for Anxiety
The self-medicating effects of extreme-fitness TV
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Jason Raish The First Troll
The wicked vendettas of Thomas De Quincey, the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
