In its first week, the seventy-eighth film festival showcased new movies by Richard Linklater, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, and ...

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The co-host of “Inside the NBA” discusses the show’s move to ESPN, the antics of his co-star Charles Barkley, and their role ...

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Twist ,” by the Irish author Colum McCann, projects an impatience with the idea that our individual and subjective experiences of the internet have much more meaning to yield. Instead, the book takes ...