A Photographer's Family Left Behind In 'Louder Than Bombs'
A war photographer's death leaves behind a family of men battling their own demons in the unusually structured film from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier.
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'The Red Parts' Offers No Easy Answers
Author Maggie Nelson's aunt was murdered decades ago. Her new book chronicles the trial that ensues when the old, cold case is reopened. It's an uneasy masterpiece that avoids quick catharsis.
A Radiologist And Poet Explains How He Sees The World In Patterns
Amit Majmudar, Ohio's first Poet Laureate, spends his days looking for abnormalities in X-rays, CT scans and PET scans. He's given his latest poetry collection a provocative name: Dothead.
A Family Drama Unfolds Through Shifting Viewpoints In 'Louder Than Bombs'
Point-of-view is passed like a baton among the tortured main characters in Joachim Trier's new film. Critic David Edelstein says Louder than Bombs is intimate, touching and "insistently alive."
A Fond (No, Really!) Farewell To 'American Idol'
Built on telephone dialing and the sting of a British tongue, American Idol shuffles off this mortal coil on Thursday night, having provided just enough good moments to survive.
Looking Back On Merle Haggard's MerleFest Debut
He was one of country music's most successful singers.
'Star Wars' Alert: The 'Rogue One' Trailer Is Here
The first teaser trailer for this year's Star Wars movie has arrived. The film — set after the end of the prequels, but before the original series — is the first stand-alone movie of the franchise.
AMA Bonus: Jason Jones' Ballsy Piece For 'The Daily Show'
The actor and comedian from the new series The Detour and former Daily Show correspondent tells us about how he and then Daily Show host Jon Stewart fought to air a particularly ballsy story.
A 'New' Rembrandt: From The Frontiers Of AI And Not The Artist's Atelier
A newly unveiled portrait bearing all the hallmarks of the Dutch master is actually the result of 18 months of analysis of 346 of his paintings, plus 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.
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In this final round, every answer contains a word that has the same vowel twice in a row. To the clue, "this former Daily Show correspondent hosts her own show on TBS," you'd answer, "Samantha Bee."