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the she said dialogues: flesh memory, by Akilah Oliver

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While the Possible is Possible: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 3

4:13pm February 04, 2021

In the final installment of our 2021 poetry preview, we bring you books that demonstrate the incredible capaciousness of poetry — and that we hope will be sustaining company for the year ahead.

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Trump Podcasts, The Product Of A Confusing Presidency, Face An Uncertain Future

3:43pm February 04, 2021

by Nick Quah

A podcast cottage industry that first emerged in the 2016 presidential election is drawing to a close. Critic Nick Quah wonders if the shows, designed to help explain the chaos, simply added to it.

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You'll Never Look At Your 'Good Neighbors' The Same Way Again

1:00pm February 04, 2021

by Gabino Iglesias

Sarah Langan's new novel takes the old theme of "something rotten in suburbia" and pushes it into the future, in an intense, uncomfortable story about class resentment and the horrors it can lead to.

Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You was a critical favorite last year — but didn't garner any Golden Globe nominations.

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Lack Of Diversity Mars Golden Globe TV Nominations

10:35pm February 03, 2021

by Eric Deggans

Critics agree that Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You is a masterpiece — but it was one of many TV shows with creators and actors of color that were left out of this year's Golden Globe nominations.

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Overflowing 'Year Abroad' Is A Travelogue, A Coming-Of-Age Tale And A Mafia Thriller

4:36pm February 03, 2021

by Ari Shapiro

Chang-Rae Lee's new novel — about a college kid from New Jersey who ends up following a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur on a business trip — is part, travelogue, coming-of-age tale and thriller.

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Golden Globe statuettes are on display during an unveiling by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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2021 Golden Globe Nominees Announced, Netflix Leads The Pack

1:18pm February 03, 2021

by Petra Mayer

Nominees for the 2021 Golden Globes were announced today via a livestream. Past winners Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson revealed the first few nominees in a simulcast with the Today show.

The Copenhagen Trilogy, by Tove Ditlevsen

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New Translation Shares The Voice Of A Poet Who Wrote As Intensely As She Lived

11:31am February 03, 2021

by John Powers

Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen took her own life in 1976. A newly translated version of her three-part memoir traces the sometimes amusing, sometimes painful turns of her unconventional life.

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Legendary Director Mike Nichols Is As Brilliant As He Is Enigmatic In New Biography

6:26am February 03, 2021

by Michael Schaub

In Mike Nichols: A Life, author Mark Harris presents an engrossing tale of the auteur as an outsider from the start who grew to find much success in Hollywood, despite some slumps.

Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke play Tully and Kate, two friends who spend decades supporting each other in Firefly Lane.

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'Firefly Lane' Is A Regrettably Shapeless Friendship Story

5:00am February 03, 2021

by Linda Holmes

The Netflix adaptation of Kristin Hannah's novel, starring Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke, doesn't follow the novel's narrative shape, but it has trouble finding one of its own.

The author's grandparents, Russell and Mary Shorto, socialize at Club Harlem in Atlantic City, N.J., in the mid-1950s.

Author Digs Into Family's 'Smalltime' Mob Operation, Finds Family Secrets

4:35pm February 02, 2021

by Dave Davies

Russell Shorto's grandfather was a mob boss in the industrial town of Johnstown, Pa. Shorto writes about the family havoc that resulted from his grandfather's operation in his new memoir, Smalltime.

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