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My Journey Inside the “Mind of a Serial Killer”
Although I enjoy true crime—Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Vincent Bugliosi’s “Helter Skelter” are among my favorites—I’ve never really listened, from start to finish, to a true-crime podcast,...
Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?
There was one text that Kenny thought was particularly relevant to his search for the truth about the epitaph. In 1732, Swift completed a poem titled “Verses on the...
“Our Land” Is a Blistering Denunciation of Colonialist Oppression
But for decades, as some of Martel’s interviewees note, their presence on the land has come under threat from the Amíns of the world: we hear about specious claims...
She Dressed “The Devil Wears Prada” ’s Miranda Priestly and Came Back for Seconds
I want to talk about “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” There were so many looks in it that I don’t know where to begin. I think a lot of...
“Heated Rivalry” and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite
Plus: the radiant pop of MUNA, the visceral paintings of Juanita McNeely, a “Beaches” musical, and more. Source link
It’s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?
What we learn in our sleep can apparently influence our behavior, too. In 2014, the neuroscientist Anat Arzi was a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She...
Charles and Donald See Eye to Eye
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“Two Pianos” Is a Textured Contemporary Melodrama with Classic-Hollywood Restraint
Mathias is staying with his mother, Anna (Anne Kessler), in the apartment where he grew up, and chance intervenes again: walking through a public park, he sees a young...
“Schmigadoon!” and “The Lost Boys” Are Killer Revamps
The first sign of the show’s commitment to the bit is the third song, a delirious hoedown called “Corn Puddin’,” a parody of inane but delightful vintage numbers such...
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” Gives the Decline of Magazines the Glossy Treatment
In “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the offices of the fashion magazine Runway have become a moderately kinder, gentler place. Two decades after we first met her, Miranda Priestly...
The Kirkification of Our Troubled Times
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka.A few months ago, the pro-Iran group Akhbar Enfejari (Explosive News) was just another unknown YouTube...
“The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood
In a new book, “Fast and Furious Franchising,” the media scholar Dan Hassler-Forest argues that the series is central to understanding the evolution of Hollywood over the past twenty...