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'Rivals' Laid Bare November 06, 2024
Since its release two weeks ago, Rivals has swept the nation off its feet, winning critical acclaim and introducing Jilly Cooper, the queen of horsey Rutshire, to a new audience. But for executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins, 47, and for Coope...
The United Charms of Baseball November 05, 2024
Let us now take a respite from the cleaving political moment to praise famous men in slightly more convivial division. The World Series has just been contested between those old baseball rivals, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, and f...
The Many Forms of Rachel Cusk November 04, 2024
To judge by the critical response, Rachel Cusk’s new novel has left readers feeling betrayed. The nature of the betrayal depended upon what aspect of her work the critic once esteemed. For Dwight Garner of the New York Times, reviewing Parade meant r...
'Yellowstone' Captures the True Mindset of America November 04, 2024
Yellowstone is the most popular TV show in America, but somehow also a well-kept secret. When the first episode of its penultimate season was shown on American television a couple of years ago, more than 12 million people watched it live. For context...
Workers of the World, Divide November 01, 2024
Timothy Shenk’s new book, Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, tries to weave together two stories and sometimes succeeds. One is about the rival careers of two of the major center-left political advisers of the past half-century, Stan Gre...
