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Law & Order SVU: Still the best!
As a culture writer I’m supposed to turn you on to some cool Euro detective drama on Netflix. Sure, I’ve watched them, and I have to say, not only are they mostly humdrum or clever without being smart, they’re not as interesting as what’s happening on Law & Order: SVU every week. Storylines that are… via …
Review: I Am Not Your Negro Shows How Far We Only Think We’ve Come
In an era when civilized discourse has gone the way of the flip phone, novelist, essayist and playwright James Baldwin—as heard and seen in Raoul Peck’s bracing documentary I Am Not Your Negro—is like an ambassador from a lost time. The movie is an imagining of an ambitious book Baldwin started to write but never… via …
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