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New Movies

by Nat Segnit,

Early on in the movie adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel, Beasts of No Nation, Agu, the preteen protagonist, and his unnamed older brother have just pulled off an impish…

New Movies

by Daniel Mendelsohn,

At the climax of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 homage to World War II genre movies, a German war hero who’s attending the premiere of a Nazi propaganda film based…

Residence on Earth

by Jonathan Dee,

The genius of Joy Williams

Means of Dissent

by Lee Siegel,

America’s lost culture of opposition

A Goose in a Dress

by Tanya Gold,

In which our intrepid restaurant critic submits to the dreams and excesses of New York’s most fashionable eateries

New Television

by Rivka Galchen,

In Season 5 of Louie (FX), Louie is a new kind of superhero. Like Wonder Woman, the canonical superhero he most resembles, Louie’s distinctive superpower is love. With loving understanding,…

Joint Ventures

by Charles Bock,

How sneakers became high fashion and big business

New Books

by Joshua Cohen,

Before Europe orientalized its eastern colonies, the Jew orientalized himself. Living in exile — amid the empires of Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and the four Islamic caliphates — he…

New Art

by Alice Gregory,

Museums,” the art historian Susanne Neubauer wrote, “are the place where things are transformed into objects.” In the case of BASQUIAT: THE UNKNOWN NOTEBOOKS, which is on view at the…

First-Person Shooters

by Sam Sacks,

What’s missing in contemporary war fiction

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

In August 1965, Andy Warhol popped two Desoxyn and set out with his Philips tape recorder to capture a day in the life of Factory superstar Ondine. (The two had…

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New Movies

New Movies

Residence on Earth

Means of Dissent

A Goose in a Dress

New Television

Joint Ventures

New Books

New Art

First-Person Shooters

New Books

July 2015

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