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Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook

A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.
By Jacob Silverman

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The Gentlemanly Hater’s Guide to Gone With the Wind

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.
By Drew Magary

Book Publishing’s Next Battle: Conservative Authors

The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.
By Alex Shephard

The Down Days Is an Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.
By Jennifer Wilson

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Takes On the Black Trauma of Vietnam

Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation
By Josephine Livingstone

The Righteous Power of the George Floyd Mural

The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.
By Giulia L. Heyward

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