Today, a one-question quiz.  There's no grade involved, though, no right or wrong answer per se. In Zadie Smith's essay collection  ...

True crime documentaries have been around for a long time. Only now, with the popularity of streaming, do the films and the filmmakers truly...

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In my continuing adventures in the land of honkaku, (traditional, often locked-room Japanese mystery novels), I recently read Seishi Yokomiz...

By Scott D. Parker For six years now, my family of three have watched “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” the night before Thanksgiving. And ye...

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