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    All the Pretty Beasts: What We Choose to Save of Our Natural World

    All the Pretty Beasts: What We Choose to Save of Our Natural World

    On conservation and fiction.

    By Bradley Somer | December 1, 2022

    The Teenage Cannibal Movie for Our Time? <em>Bones and All</em> Ate Me Right Up

    The Teenage Cannibal Movie for Our Time? Bones and All Ate Me Right Up

    Luca Guadagnino’s Adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’s Novel is Rich, Sad, and All-Consuming

    By Olivia Rutigliano | November 30, 2022

    The Best New Crime Shows Coming Out in December

    The Best New Crime Shows Coming Out in December

    Forget the World Cup. There's a new season of Slow Horses.

    By Dwyer Murphy | November 30, 2022

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    Walter Mosley on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet

    "This permission to imagine, I believe, is the gift of all comics but T’Challa, the Black Panther, was a special gift to many young black people. Rather than a creation for us, it was a manifestation of our underlying dreams."

    By Walter Mosley | November 29, 2022

    “Three Pines” Puts a Darker Lens on Louise Penny’s Series

    “Three Pines” Puts a Darker Lens on Louise Penny’s Series

    Still, fans and newcomers will find a lot to love

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    A Tiny Review of <em>Glass Onion</em>

    A Tiny Review of Glass Onion

    Rian Johnson's long-awaired Knives Out sequel is a lavish, wildly satirical mystery.

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    <em>She Said</em> is an Effective, Respectful Journalism Movie

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    Trouble Was His Business: 50 Years of <em>Trouble Man</em>

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    Queer Criminality in <em>Swoon</em> and <em>The Living End</em>

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    The Best Cars in the History of Fictional Detectives

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    <em>Enola Holmes 2</em> Delivers

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