May 18
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In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the…
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Laura Adamczyk is an associate editor for The A.V. Club and oversees its books section. Her short story collection, Hardly Children, was published in 2018.
May 11
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Time keeps on slipping (slipping, slipping) into the future in episodes VII and VIII of ESPN’s The Last Dance. The…
May 4
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Last night’s airing of episodes V and VI of The Last Dance takes us to halftime in the 10-part ESPN docuseries on…
Apr 27 2020
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Tag team, back again. Check it to wreck it, let’s begin.
Apr 20 2020
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At long last The Last Dance is here, and not a minute too soon. ESPN’s 10-part documentary on the 1990s Chicago…
Apr 17 2020
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Mar 30 2020
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It begins with the most tired of clichés: the body of a dead woman. Five children make the discovery near a river…
Feb 28 2020
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Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing…
Feb 6 2020
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Those who accept what is predicted to happen, what is, in fact, already happening, may worry more about surviving…
Jan 24 2020
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This morning, author Jeanine Cummins and publisher Flatiron Books responded to criticism over American Dirt,…
Aug 21 2019
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Pop culture just wouldn’t be the same without its fans, which is why the entertainment industry so often tells…
Jul 8 2019
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In the backroom of a doctor’s office in rural Indiana, eight women, a weight loss group, sit around a large mahogany…
Jun 4 2019
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Marlon James is living something of a writer’s fantasy life. In 2015, he won the prestigious Man Booker Prize—for…
May 7 2019
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Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s Netflix sketch series I Think You Should Leave has proven to be one of 2019’s sleeper…
Apr 8 2019
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Everyone’s talking about Thomas Merton again—Merton, the peripatetic would-be poet who decided to reject the noise…
Apr 1 2019
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“How would you feel if in your entire lifetime it had never mattered what you thought?” For the man being asked in…
Feb 7 2019
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First published in 1982 and re-released in late 2017, Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban concerns a lonely woman named…
Jan 7 2019
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On New Year’s Eve, we received a tarot reading, and we were told the coming year would bring a great abundance. An…
Dec 28 2018
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The best meal I ever made was a New Year’s Eve dinner a few years back. Nothing about it was particularly…
Oct 2 2018
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To call a writer a stylist can be a backhanded compliment. One is acknowledging their skill, while at the same time…