Arts
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‘Avatar’ and the Headache of High Frame Rate Filmmaking
Why do James Cameron and others experiment with this? Intended to eliminate blur, it is actually unnerving in scenes involving…
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What a 1985 Novel Can Tell Us About Life in the 2020s: Almost Everything
Noah Baumbach’s funny and very stylish film adaptation of “White Noise” is a great invitation to return to the source…
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10 New Books Coming in January
Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor The fates of three people in New Delhi converge in this high-octane new novel.…
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‘Terrorist’ — to Whom?
BROTHERLESS NIGHT, by V. V. Ganeshananthan The word “terrorist,” or some variation thereof, shows up six times on the opening…
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Librarians Are Meeting Younger Readers Where They Are: TikTok
The pandemic hurt children’s reading skills. Librarians are doing what it takes to connect them with books — including dance…
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For Kashana Cauley, Doomsday Isn’t So Hypothetical
THE SURVIVALISTS, by Kashana Cauley Few demographics illustrate the global anxieties of our era better than New Yorkers, who make…
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This Diet App Sends a Goblin to Eviscerate Your Kitchen
Rachel Harrison’s feminist horror novels are some of the most original and entertaining out there, and her collection of stories,…
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Woman Accuses Steven Tyler of Sexually Assaulting Her in the 1970s
In a lawsuit filed under California’s Child Victims Act, the woman says she met the Aerosmith frontman when she was…
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Woman Accuses Steven Tyler of Sexually Assaulting Her in the 1970s
In a lawsuit filed under California’s Child Victims Act, the woman says she met the Aerosmith frontman when she was…
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Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Payakan, the estranged young tulkun, exemplifies the director James Cameron’s obsessive attention to the biomechanics of every entity that inhabits…