Arts & Life

To make the best (and safest) burger, America's Test Kitchen recommends grinding the meat at home and packing it loosely.

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'Test Kitchen': How To Buy The Safest Meat And Make The Juiciest Steaks

2:10pm October 24, 2014

The Cook's Illustrated Meat Book gives tips on how to shop for, store, season and cook meat. Why shouldn't you pack your burgers too tight? Two America's Test Kitchen editors explain.

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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is often celebrated as the most beautifully designed book of the Renaissance, despite its bewildering mix of languages, both real and invented.

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Book News: Lily King, Roz Chast And Kate Samworth Win Inaugural Kirkus Prize

11:02am October 24, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

Earning honors for fiction, nonfiction and young children's literature, respectively, the writers are the first to win the award. Also: The Bronx's bookstore returns, while the U.K. shows off doodles.

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Pursuing The Mafia Into All 'Four Corners' Of Palermo

10:03am October 24, 2014

by Nishant Dahiya

Reporter Giuseppe di Piazza's debut novel, The Four Corners of Palermo, follows an unnamed young reporter during the brutal early days of the mafia's conflict with the Italian government in the 1980s.

Arts

Message From Documentary 'Citizenfour': Be Afraid (Of Surveillance)

7:03am October 24, 2014

by Kenneth Turan

Ken Turan reviews the documentary Citizenfour from filmmaker Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and his decision to leak information about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities.

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'Citizenfour' Follows The Snowden Story Without (Much) Grandstanding

2:03am October 24, 2014

by Andrew Lapin

Documentarian Laura Poitras found herself deep inside the story of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and his revelations about surveillance.

Hippolyte Girardot and Sabine Azéma play spouses in Life of Riley.

Arts

'Life Of Riley,' Alain Resnais' Final Film, Bids A Sunny Adieu

2:03am October 24, 2014

by Mark Jenkins

The film, set in a series of make-believe gardens, follows three couples after they receive devastating news about a mutual friend.

Force Majeure follows the aftermath of a split-second decision made by a father during an avalanche.

Arts

In 'Force Majeure,' Society Crumbles Under An Avalanche

2:03am October 24, 2014

by Ella Taylor

The wickedly funny Swedish black comedy follows a family after its patriarch makes a selfish, split-second decision in a time of crisis.

In The Heart Machine, John Gallagher Jr. plays a man who begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend actually lives nearby.

Arts

'The Heart Machine' Finds Subtlety In The Perils Of Online Dating

2:03am October 24, 2014

by Tomas Hachard

Zachary Wigon's debut feature explores what happens when a man suspects that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online, might be living in the same city.

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You'll Want To Accept The Dinner Invitation To 'The Immortal Evening'

2:06pm October 23, 2014

by Maureen Corrigan

On a cold evening in London in 1817, painter Benjamin Haydon hosted a dinner with the likes of Keats and Wordsworth. Critic Stanley Plumly recreates the crackling conversation about art and science.

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Accentuate The Positive

10:46am October 23, 2014

What do Beyoncé, André the Giant, and a soufflé have in common? Why, the accents in their names, bien sûr! The answers in this final round will be words, names, or phrases containing an accent.

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