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Appraisal

Art Beyond Politics

by Robyn Creswell,

At the New Museum’s latest show, Arab artists take up — and look past — regional politics to question their own modes of expression

Operation Margarine

by Nina Martyris,

Tracing the wartime rise of ersatz butter

Letting Go of the Beatles

by James Marcus,

A fan’s notes

The Burnt, the Abandoned, and the Died-on

by Joshua Cohen,

Bernard Malamud’s three unfinished novels

“Knight, Poet, Anarchist”

by Eliot Weinberger,

A new introduction to The Green Child, by Herbert Read

The Director as Dream Figure

by Michelle Orange,

Revisiting Richard Linklater's Waking Life

Terrence Malick’s Song of Songs

by Pico Iyer,

Does To the Wonder reveal a director lost in his own vision?

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