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Kelsey Dake The Twee Revolution
From Wes Anderson to Zooey Deschanel to Brooklynites on bicycles, a terrifying aesthetic is overtaking America.
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Zohar Lazar The Game That Conquered the World
What is the appeal of Minecraft? It’s the limitless creation of one’s own reality.
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Reading the Beatles
Forget the recent spate of books on the Fab Four. The only volume you need was published 20 years ago today …
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Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy The Junkie Genius
A new biography reveals a William S. Burroughs both ghastlier and more impressive than many previously thought.
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Madder Than Hell: How Network Anticipated Contemporary Media
Paddy Chayefsky’s iconic 1976 movie created a template for today's era of outrage.
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Gluekit TV's Post-Recession Obsession With Stuff
What to make of all these reality programs about pawn stores, storage lockers, and hoarders?
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Kevin Christy How Norman Rockwell Captured the Inner Life of a Nation
His tableaux of American innocence aren't as simple as they seem.
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Kevin Christy The Passion of Flannery O’Connor
A prayer journal kept by the writer in her early 20s sheds new light on her biblical ironies.
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Paul McCartney's Joyfully Unnecessary New Album
Not all of New works, but the songs that do are well worth appreciating.
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Kevin Christy The Inner Life of James Bond
The publication of William Boyd’s new 007 novel, Solo, occasions a reexamination of the superspy’s character—or telling lack thereof.
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Kevin Christy Joe Strummer and Punk Self-Reinvention
How a privately educated British schoolboy named John Mellor became The Clash's iconic front man
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Happiness Is a Paul McCartney Concert in Summertime
On the pure joy and infectious empathy of Macca at Fenway Park on Tuesday night
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Kevin Christy 'Til Meth Do Us Part: Who Is Going to Die at the End of Breaking Bad?
When AMC's masterful series winds to a close this summer, it's a safe bet that either Walter or Jesse will have to go.
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Kevin Christy Why Sylvia Plath Still Haunts American Culture
Even half a century after her suicide, both her work and her life remain thrilling and horrifying.
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David Wilson The Hair-Metal Diaries
In a new memoir, the lead singer of Ratt remembers what may be the most forgettable cultural phenomenon of the modern era.
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David Wilson The Housewife-Industrial Complex
How a TV franchise mutated into a demented hybrid of gossip generator and infomercial
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The Boston Phoenix Set Me Free
And now it's gone.
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David Wilson Reliving Groundhog Day
On the 20th anniversary of the beloved Bill Murray comedy, it’s time to recognize it as a profound work of contemporary metaphysics.
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Miles Donovan/AP Images Brideshead Regurgitated
The ludicrous charms of Downton Abbey, TV’s reigning aristo-soap
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Comedy Central The Demonic Genius of Daniel Tosh
The Comedy Central star brings the Colosseum to your couch.
