“The only observation that feels true is that ‘Tiger King’ is what we watched two weeks into our isolation”
“Tiger King” is prestige trash: narratively ambitious but self-aware. True crime is far from...
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Tiger King’s “choice of inspirational comparison – a mockumentary – is telling”
As Goode recently told Rolling Stone, “What fascinated Rebecca and I was the ‘Best...
“The plague novel is the place where all human beings abandon all other human beings”
The structure of the modern plague novel, all the way to Stephen King’s “The...
“the existence of books, no matter how grim the tale, is itself a sign, evidence that humanity endures, in the very contagion of reading”
In the long centuries during which the plague ravaged Europe, the quarantined, if they...
“the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading”
The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...