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You Could Do Worse

Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ feels insubstantial and surprisingly slight. It's still better than most of what moviegoers are being offered these days.
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Updike Redux

John Updike's writing attempted to capture what is ineffably precious and intangible about life. What will be lost if the culture forgets him?
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Twice Blest

For Christopher Ricks, the critic is in the business of catching at felicities: those seeming accidents of language that end up being revelatory.
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The Return of a Classic

The question at the center of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' is what generosity looks like—and whether one needs material possessions in order to be truly generous.