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Beyond Identity?

In response to Mark Lilla’s ‘The Once and Future Liberal,’ four authors weigh in on the fate of liberalism and the meaning of identity politics
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Gloom-Struck

‘Blade Runner 2049’ struggles to fully realize its vision of a dystopic future. ‘Ex Libris’ shows how real libraries are facing their own uncertain future
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A Hillbilly Heist

In terms of the red-blue divide, Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’ probably isn’t going to bring us together. It may well be part of the problem
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Poem | Vic's Auto Glass,

A place of hurt and waiting, shards and splinters, / Auto glass repairs, / Vic, grumpy and grouchy, / tells customers to shut up in his Italian accent.
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What Almost Was

‘Confederate,’ as a work of fiction, could become an enthralling reimagining of history—but to what end?
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Blockbusting

What happens to independent filmmakers such as Sofia Coppola, Patty Jenkins, and Edgar Wright when they embark on genre projects?
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Waving & Drowning

‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer’ shows how power is certainly seductive, but the seduction is not always sexual
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Tangled Up in Bob

That nasally snarl, that gravelly croak, that rock grinder in his larynx; Dylan’s voice is an American river: stony, deep, muddy