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He has published one story in The New Yorker, “A Village After
Dark,”
which appeared in the magazine in 2001. Set in England, it’s the tale of
a man named Fletcher, who returns to a village where, “long ago,” he
says, “I had lived and come to exercise such influence.” As with much of
Ishiguro’s writing, many things that a reader might want to know are
withheld, or kept under the surface. Ben Marcus discussed the story with
the magazine’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, on The New Yorker’s Fict…
about 8 years ago
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The former C.I.A. operative and failed Presidential candidate has become an unlikely civic superego for the age of Trump.
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Alex Ross and Richard Brody join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss the particular genius of Orson Welles, and his evolving legacy.
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In the past few years, Williams, who died this week, published several poems that touched on the subjects of death and getting older.
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If you dumped “A Clockwork Orange,” “Taxi Driver,” “American Psycho,” and “Fight Club” into a TV, the result would be “Mr. Robot.”
over 10 years ago
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The Staten Island Yankees brought the nerds and jocks together for one summer evening.
over 10 years ago
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Doctorow once said, “When you write about the past, you are always reflecting your own age.”
over 10 years ago
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James Salter, who died on Friday, had a reputation as a writer’s writer.
over 10 years ago
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Pedro paired a mastery of fastballs, changeups, and curves with a deep and sincere love of flowers.
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“We used to get the newspaper every morning and the sports section would tell us, Here’s what’s happening in the progression of the season,” McGrath says. “Many people—younger people, certainly—simply aren’t consuming sports that way anymore.”
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over 10 years ago
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Emily Nussbaum, David Haglund, and Amelia Lester discuss the first of the final seven episodes of “Mad Men,” and where the show might be heading.
over 10 years ago
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Sometimes a critic writes something about an artist that so lodges in a reader’s mind that it follows the artist around.
almost 11 years ago
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One way of interpreting the origin-story idea of “Better Call Saul” is to think of it as “Breaking Bad” in a mellower mood.
almost 11 years ago
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Comedians are seen as honest populists: laughter, we think, not only feels good but teases out universal truths.
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