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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Is a Rare TV Revival That Works
The beloved family dramedy returns with a Netflix mini-series that’s self-aware enough to succeed.
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Wikimedia / JIANG HONGYAN / Aliaksei Smalenski / ... How American Cuisine Became a Melting Pot
Eight Flavors, the new book by Sarah Lohman, is an absorbing history of food culture in the U.S., and of the people who contributed to it.
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Jason DeCrow / AP ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ an Undying Thanksgiving Protest Song
The political message came second to the humor of Arlo Guthrie’s improbable 1967 holiday hit.
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Josie Grant / Shutterstock Apolitical Arguments for the Thanksgiving Table
Want to fight with your family this holiday … but want also to avoid any and all talk of the recent election? Here you go.
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Disney Moana Is a Big, Beautiful Disney Smash
The studio’s latest may tell a conventional story, but thanks to stunning CGI visuals, songs co-authored by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and a standout turn by Dwayne Johnson, it’s an absolute delight.
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Track of the Day: ‘Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me’ by Low
Matthew gets bleak: I bring you Low, covering The Smiths’ “Last Night I Dreamt That…
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Matt Chan / Flickr How to Fight With Your Relatives: A Handy, Bipartisan Guide
Thanksgiving may celebrate turkeys and stuffing and pie; its true joy, though, can come in properly talking down to one’s family.
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The Weinstein Company Lion Is Inspirational Storytelling Done Right
Garth Davis’s debut film adapts the true-life story of Saroo Brierley, who reconnected with his Indian birth family through Google Earth.
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Doug McLean Writing With Infinite Pity
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon discusses what he learned about empathy from Borges’s “The Aleph.”
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Track of the Day: ‘This Land Is Your Land’ by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
A funk/soul rendition of Woody Guthrie’s legendary folk song: But it comes to us bittersweet…
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Disney / Lucasfilm A Deleted Tweet Won't Hurt Rogue One
Though the writer of the Star Wars spinoff has sparked controversy for “politicizing” the movie, it’s unlikely to damage its prospects.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Punctures the Liberal Bubble
This week, the show turned its mockery toward smug elites.
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Brooklyn Museum Jazz Painting and Boxing Movies: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Luke McGregor / Reuters Leonard Cohen, Judaism's Bard
Throughout his career, the singer’s heritage and faith suffused his music.
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New Line Cinema The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Queer Writers in the Age of Trump
How literary expression can counter fear and anxiety at an uncertain moment in American history
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Focus Features Nocturnal Animals: The Art Without the Heart
Tom Ford's second feature displays the same emphatic style as A Single Man, but it never quite penetrates beneath its beautiful surfaces.
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STX Entertainment The Edge of Seventeen Is an Instant Teen Classic
Kelly Fremon Craig’s debut film avoids genre tropes to deliver a beautiful, sometimes abrasive, coming-of-age story.
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Sergio Dionisio / AP Zadie Smith on the Politics of Fiction
“I wouldn’t have thought that I would write on political subjects,” she says. “But I have, quite a lot.”
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Twitter / HillaryClinton Finding Meaning in the Mannequin Challenge
Is it just a coincidence that the No. 1 song in the country owes its popularity to people hitting pause on history?
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Frederick M. Brown / Getty What Gwen Ifill Knew About Race in America
“If I weren’t a better person … I swear, I would worry about our lovely nation,” she once told me.
