Arts & Entertainment

Recommendations and analysis of the movies, books, music and TV that should be on your radar this week and beyond.

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Did the KGB Murder Albert Camus?

One writer’s complex legacy gets even more complicated

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Author Jeff VanderMeer Searches for Where It All Went Wrong in “Dead Astronauts”

Milan Kundera

Author Milan Kundera Given Back His Czech Citizenship After 40 Years

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The Apostrophe Protection Society Is Officially Shutting Down

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The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for December

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The 20 Best Books of 2019

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New Data Shows That Books Are Almost Always Better Than Their Movie Adaptations

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“OK Boomer” Book Is Already on Its Way

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An Algorithm Can Tell Us How Much Shakespeare Was Actually Written by Shakespeare

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Here Are the Winners of the 2019 National Book Awards

View of the Place du Tertre and the Sacre-Coeur in Paris.

Is Paris Still an Art World Heavyweight?

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The Book of Bad Literary Puns That Took Over the Cocktail World

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What Don DeLillo Can Tell Us About Thursday Night’s Browns-Steelers Brawl

Products of the Week: Suede Sneakers, Fire Pits and Retro Motorcycle Helmets

Products of the Week: Suede Sneakers, Fire Pits and Retro Motorcycle Helmets

Anonymous Anti-Trump Book Already Breaking Sales Records

Arts & Entertainment

Anonymous Anti-Trump Book Is Already Breaking Sales Records

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Health & Fitness

Why Yoga Might Be the Ultimate Insomnia Cure

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Hunter S. Thompson

What We Can Learn From Hunter S. Thompson’s Letters

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Architecture & Real Estate

What Is the Definition of Midwestern Architecture?

HBO Will Be the Subject of a New Oral History Book

Arts & Entertainment

HBO Will Be the Subject of a New Oral History Book

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Can Contrarian Writing Survive in 2019?

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The Entire History of Chicago Theater, In One Book

Clive Barker

“The Orville” Team to Adapt Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood” For Hulu

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The 5 New Books You Should Be Reading This November

Jonathan Lethem talks about the "Motherless Brooklyn" adaptation (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

Jonathan Lethem Talks Film Adaptations, Superhero Movies and Parenthood

Ford v Ferrari

Arts & Entertainment

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for November

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The World Needs More Glenn O'Briens

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Philip Roth Left $2 Million to Newark, New Jersey Public Library

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Class, Spontaneous Combustion and One of the Best Novels of the Year

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