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January 2, 2021
Joan Didion Cast Off the Fictions of American Politics
Few writers examined their own assumptions and misapprehensions as intelligently as Didion.
by Jacob Bacharach

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The latest movie in the series, “Resurrections,” explores the indignities and triumphs of middle age.
by Ryu Spaeth
In Marlowe Granados’s “Happy Hour” and Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind,” upward mobility is elusive.
by Philippa Snow
The author of “Crime and Punishment” had a love-hate relationship with the true-crime obsessions of his era.
by Jennifer Wilson

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Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.
by Lidija Haas
Biographers get distracted by the photographer’s unusual life story—to the point of diminishing her work itself.
by Jeremy Lybarger
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