A Sensitive Raunchfest In ‘The Inbetweeners’
Film adaptations of TV shows long off the air have proven hit-or-miss at the box office. But in recent years, …
‘Bachelorette’: Mean Girls Make A Sport Of Spite
The three protagonists of Bachelorette do some pretty terrible things: They talk trash behind a fourth friend’s back, kvetching bitterly …
Hard Of Heart, But Terribly Easy On The ‘Eye’
Fred Schepisi knows how to make the kinds of movies almost no one makes anymore. The tragedy is that they …
‘Richard’ Serves Up Cannibalistic Horror, Sans Scares
Cannibalism and comedy are strange but remarkably compatible bedfellows. Paul Bartel’s cult classic Eating Raoul (1982) set the standard, lampooning …
Advocate Fights ‘Ambient Despair’ In Assisted Living
Martin Bayne entered an assisted living facility at 53 after he was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. The disease affected …
You Don’t Have To Be A ‘Nerd,’ But It Helps
Cranky technophobe Huw is in a bad way. It’s centuries into the future, self-aware technology has formed a “singularity” — …
Same Streets, Different Lives In ‘NW’ London
Writer Zadie Smith burst onto the literary scene with her first novel White Teeth more than a decade ago. Set …
Was Zadie Smith’s Novel ‘NW’ Worth The Wait?
Zadie Smith wrote her last novel On Beauty seven years ago — a long time in the anxious world of …
How Christopher Hitchens Faced His Own ‘Mortality’
When a consummately articulate, boundlessly bold journalist stricken with stage 4 esophageal cancer reports from the front lines about facing …
New In Paperback Sept. 3-9
Fiction and nonfiction releases from Jeffrey Eugenides, Sebastian Barry, Jodi Kantor, David Margolick and Simon Garfield. [Copyright 2012 National Public …
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