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It's a truism by now to say that the Internet has made music placeless and ubiquitous; Andrew Lustman, known professionally as FaltyDL, is a perfect example of this principle. His work is a combination of garage and early-nineties electronica, genres that grew out of an exchange between . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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In 1993, when the French duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo released their first record, as members of the rock band Darlin', an English journalist described the music as “a daft punky thrash.' Shortened, this became the name of their next project, a not . . . ... Quick Read |
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Remember beauty? For a refresher course, visit Philip Taaffe's new show—a dozen kaleidoscopic big paintings and a wall of sixteen black prints—his first at the Luhring Augustine gallery, to which he decamped from the international supermarket chain that is Gagosian. Taaffe, fifty-eight, has . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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It seemed illogical, when John Belushi played Captain Kirk on “Saturday Night Live,' in 1976, that “Star Trek' could still be a sentient dramatic form thirty-seven years later. The skit showed an NBC executive in blazer and shades, played by Elliott Gould, invading the bridge . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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Charles Jackson—whose gritty first novel, “The Lost Weekend,' sold almost a million copies and was made into an Academy Award-winning film by Billy Wilder—struggled with personal tragedy and devastating addiction while cribbing the lurid details of his life for his art. In this . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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In 2011, the G.D.P. of Texas was $1.3 trillion, bigger than Mexico's or South Korea's. The state supplied forty per cent of America's net new jobs between 2009 and 2011, and in 2012 it accounted for 8.7 per cent of the nation’ . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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Told in the voice of Jesse, a cancer survivor who has learned that she's infertile, this engaging novel about a Brooklyn couple's struggle to adopt a child maintains a playful tone even when dealing with painful circumstances. The story doubles as a survey of the current . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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Miller's novel features parallel protagonists separated by history and geography—Jacob, the wayward son of a Jewish family in eighteenth-century Paris, and Masha, the daughter of an Orthodox family in present-day Queens. Both are forced to confront decisions about whether to keep or discard the . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a frightening story about a former boxer and small-time gangster, the Swede, who lies in bed in a New Jersey rooming house, too disgusted to defend himself against men coming to kill him. “The Killers,' from 1946 (at Film Society of Lincoln . . . ... Quick Read |
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When we first met Don Draper, back in 2007, which is to say, back in 1960, he was like a billboard for his own charisma. Handsome as a racecar, he clearly got a kick out of his own cinematic virility, using it to manipulate both men and women. Yet Don . . . ... Quick Read |
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