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Going Small

Hollywood offered Big Movies this year. But two new indie films remind us that immense pleasure comes in small packages
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Makers & Takers

Two new films showcase talented women whose husbands self-destruct—leaving them in mourning, even as they are freed to thrive
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Two Poems

‘I watched the bats of summer in their flight / above the warehouses, the moonlight passing through / their passing’
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Nasty Woman

There was always anger at assault allegations: touching, drugging, choking; at pay gaps, at locker-room talk. But the anger I’m feeling has changed—for the worse
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Manfred’s Tavern

Manfred’s Tavern was situated along a coast road in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, and City Island, a fishing village, was closest to land
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Friendship Seconded

Stevie, what can we hope to do this fall / when tree rows are ablaze / on sunny maple days / and from the corn the hungry roosters call?
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Ageless Authenticity

What impressed itself most on listeners in 1968, and continues to today, is the album’s utter authenticity, giving other artists permission to be truer to themselves