Displaying articles for: February 2013

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend

Deep focus upon one of film's most revered classics.

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Valediction: Maurice Sendak's Final Voyage

In My Brother's Book, the beloved author delivers an elegant elegy and swan song.

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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

The joy of not knowing what could have been.

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See Now Then

A family's domestic drama carries the magnitude of Greek myth.

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How Literature Saved My Life

A candid critic's tribute to artifice-free art.

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Swoon

An all-inclusive blueprint of charming Lotharios through the ages.

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove

A horde of surreal short stories meld the commonplace with the supernatural.

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Mastermind

Unraveling the mystery of a fictional genius. 

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Give Me Everything You Have

A writer becomes the target of a student’s destructive obsession.

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The Reenactments

What happens to your memories when you watch De Niro play your dad?

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Sugar in the Blood

A historian's inquiry into her Caribbean roots becomes a journey into a plantation's cruelties.

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May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.