Helen DeWitt is one of the finest novelists currently working in English. That she is not more widely known may be due to an unfortunate coincidence. She published her first novel, The Last Samurai, in 2000. Three years later Warner Brothers released an action movie by the same title, starring Tom
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I finally did it! I made it through David Foster Wallace’s 1996 magnum opus, Infinite Jest. At over a thousand pages, the paperback edition weighs three pounds. I invested in a Kindle e-reader just so I could tackle it without breaking my shoulder carrying it around.
The investment was worth
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First, fair warning: this is a frivolous post, a tale of pop culture, written to accompany the eating of leftover Halloween candy.
The week leading up to Halloween brought television two new fairy-tale inspired dramas, NBC's Grimm and ABC's Once Upon a Time. Grimm is a police procedural with a
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Miranda July's "The Future," her second full-length film following 2005's "Me and You and Everyone We Know," is decidedly offbeat. It features a talking cat and a walking t-shirt, for starters, and viewers not used to surrealism may be put off by such oddities. Unless you know
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