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Haruki Murakami’s quiet, compassionate 'Abandoning a Cat' [@AAKnopf] explores his relationship with his father and the meaning of lineage.
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Many readers of our generation emulate Don Draper, having lost Dante’s connections to Christianity or perhaps to any such deity. popmatters.com/dante-what-wo…
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Carlos Saldanha’s '100 Days' turns an extraordinary Atlantic crossing into a portrait of a man who seems less troubled by solitude than by the human world waiting for him ashore.
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While there is no doubt Fontaines D.C. will rightly go down as one of the era's greats, 'Dopamine Chamber' shows them struggling to close the gap between ambition and lasting impact. tinyurl.com/Fontaines26
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Neil Young brings his characteristic looseness to 'Second Song', and while that ease can be appealing, it seldom leads to anything that sticks. tinyurl.com/NeilYoung26
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Little on 'Dream House' matches the sheer brio of Empress Of's earlier music, and it lacks backbone and attention span. tinyurl.com/ExpressOf1
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Masters of mystery, Radiohead’s modus operandi manifests into various fan theories—particularly Binary Theory—which becomes brilliant music marketing. tinyurl.com/Radiohead26
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Reading Marcel Proust well requires a taste for contemplation, so much so that his masterpiece, ‘In Search of Lost Time’, is often called the longest novel ever written: it comprises seven volumes and 1,250,000 words. tinyurl.com/Proust2026
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Cristian Mungiu’s hot-button legal drama FJORD wraps messy arguments about religion and secularism into a provocative but too-tidy package. tinyurl.com/Fjord2026
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‘Calling Antonín’ from James Brandon Lewis’ Red Lily band is another rollicking but meaningful statement from one of the most vital artists in creative music. tinyurl.com/JBLewis26
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“In creating his xenomorph, H. R. Giger fused anatomy, machinery, architecture, sexuality, and death into a coherent biomechanical grammar, designing a visual system that outlived 1979’s ‘Alien’ and himself.”
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“Satirical humor has long been used as a way for citizens to show their opposition to undemocratic regimes. As early as the 6th century BC, comic poets helped steer Athenian democracy in the right direction, while carnivals not dissimilar to the ‘No Kings’ demonstrations ridiculed repressive medieval rulers millennia later.”
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