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Tilda Swinton thinks about death and says you should, too

1:39pm January 08, 2025

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.

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Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1999 to 2007, deploying to Iraq to command bomb disposal units in Balad and Kirkuk in 2005 and 2006.

Books
Arts

'The Life That Follows' Disarming IEDs In Iraq

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In her latest book about Henry Molaison, Corkin tells the story of the amnesic man she studied for a half-century, whose brain helped teach neuroscientists about the distinctions between memory and intellect.

The Patient Who Let Us Peek Inside A Brain In 'Present Tense'

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Jason Isbell's latest album, Southeastern, is personal and intimate.

Jason Isbell: Literary, But Keeping An Edge On 'Southeastern'

by Ken Tucker

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Fierce fighting has been reported between President Bashar Assad's forces and rebels around the ancient citadel in Aleppo.

Syrian Conflict Reaches Beyond Borders

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Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter reprise their roles as George and Lucille Bluth in Netflix's new fourth season of Mitch Hurwitz's Arrested Development.

Arts

New 'Arrested Development' Gags Are Best Served In One Sitting

by David Bianculli

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Books
Arts

'Fairyland': A Girl Grows Up In San Francisco's Gay Community

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A native of Maine, Stephen King has used the state as the backdrop for many of his novels and short stories. In Joyland, however, he sets his scene in North Carolina.

Fresh Air Weekend: Stephen King, Daft Punk And Cannes

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In The East, Ellen Page (left) and Alexander Skarsgard play members of an anarchist eco-terrorist collective.

Arts

Rediscover Your Inner Anarchist In The Anti-Corporate 'East'

by David Edelstein

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Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy are reporters for The Boston Globe.

Books
Arts

Whitey Bulger Bio Profiles Boston's Most Notorious Gangster

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Tartit performs at the Festival au Desert.

Music & Culture

Festival Au Desert: Music Of Peace Not Silenced By War

by Milo Miles

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Vampire Weekend (left to right: Chris Tomson, Chris Baio, Rostam Batmanglij, Ezra Koenig) met while they were all students at Columbia University.

Music & Culture

Vampire Weekend Comes Of Age In 'The City'

by Ken Tucker

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The Doors at London Airport in 1968. Left to right: John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek. Manzarek died May 20 of bile-duct cancer.

Remembering Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist For The Doors

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