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November 11, 2017
Reader’s Corner: These Cops Carry Books
The Minneapolis police department is starting something new with its community police efforts. According to the Star-Tribune: In a partnership with …
November 8, 2017
Screening Room: DOC NYC 2017
The eighth edition of the DOC NYC film festival starts tomorrow. Among the 250-odd movies screening over about a week …
November 5, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Always Be Working
Writers write. That we know. But there’s a lot they have to do before writing. There’s research, for one, not …
November 3, 2017
Screening Room: ’11/8/16′
Remember Election Day last year? Feel like living through it all again? If you have the constitution for it, check …
November 2, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
So there’s another Thor movie out, and this one’s a blast. Thor: Ragnarok opens tonight. My review is at PopMatters: It says …
October 29, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Avoid Exclamation Marks!
Elmore Leonard said this about exclamation marks: You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of …
October 22, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Don’t Stop
The novelist Kazuo Ishiguro said that he’d always followed the rule that said after four hours of continuous writing, the …
October 20, 2017
Screening Room: ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
An intoxicating blend of Greek tragedy, Kubrickian creep, and suburban satire, The Killing of a Sacred Deer is playing now. This …
October 19, 2017
Screening Room: ‘The Snowman’
Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman, the first of his Harry Hole detective novels to hit the big screen, …
October 18, 2017
Reader’s Corner: ‘A Legacy of Spies’
The new John le Carre novel, A Legacy of Spies, is out now. And yes, George Smiley is back. My review …
