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Critical Eye

The Search for a Happy Ending

A film critic gives his London childhood the Hollywood treatment

Try to Tell the Story By David Thomson | Knopf | $23.95 In Try to Tell the Story, film critic... More

The Missing Refrigerator

A writer steps up the race dialogue

Notes from No Man’s Land By Eula Biss | Graywolf Press | 244 pages, $15 "The day I moved into... More

Two Lives

The bifurcated existence of a Gilded Age celebrity

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line By Martha Sandweiss | The Penguin... More

Wising Up

An “investigative humorist” learns from his elders

How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on this Earth) By Henry Alford... More

Sticks and Stones

David Denby goes toe-to-toe with the scourge of snark

Sly, snotty, and often irresistible, snark has been flourishing in the petri dish of the American media for decades now.... More

Old TNR vs. New TNR

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