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Twice-Told Tales
Over the holidays, I go to the movies. This year I saw two of the critically praised releases of the fall, The Artist and Puss in Boots. Both of these films have relatively simple narratives. In The...
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What We’re Loving: Comfort Reads, Evil Santas
On the train down to Washington I read “Stage Mothers,” Elif Batuman’s article about a women’s theater troupe in rural Turkey, and kept pretending to have a cold so the guy sitting next to me wouldn’t...
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Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake
Still from the 1949 adaptation of Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones. There is a certain tradition in French cuisine with a paradoxical connection to French history: following the revolution,...
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Twice-Told Tales
Over the holidays, I go to the movies. This year I saw two of the critically praised releases of the fall, The Artist and Puss in Boots. Both of these films have relatively simple narratives. In The...
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What We’re Loving: Comfort Reads, Evil Santas
On the train down to Washington I read “Stage Mothers,” Elif Batuman’s article about a women’s theater troupe in rural Turkey, and kept pretending to have a cold so the guy sitting next to me wouldn’t...
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Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake
Still from the 1949 adaptation of Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones. There is a certain tradition in French cuisine with a paradoxical connection to French history: following the revolution,...
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