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November 30, 2021Slow motions: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Cry Macho’
Despite patient filmmaking, the 91-year-old director’s elegiac feature is unable to escape the legend of the man
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October 21, 2021Hell’s kitchen: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘The Morning Star’
The ‘My Struggle’ author’s first novel in 17 years considers the mundanity of everyday acts amid apocalyptic events
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October 1, 2021‘Bewilderment’ by Richard Powers
The Pulitzer winner’s open-hearted reworking of ‘Flowers for Algernon’, updated for modern times
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August 24, 2021No success like failure: Brandon Jack’s memoir ‘28’
The former Sydney Swans player restores a measure of dignity to defeat
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July 15, 2021‘Black Widow’ and an endless future of adequate spectacle
On Marvel, Disney and the dismal state of the modern blockbuster
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July 9, 2021American gusto: James Ellroy’s ‘Widespread Panic’
Pimps, peddlers and private eyes populate the latest novel by the ‘L.A. Confidential’ author
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September 1, 2020‘What Are You Going Through’ by Sigrid Nunez
The late-life author of ‘The Friend’ delivers a chastening and discursive novel of mourning
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August 1, 2020‘Antkind’ by Charlie Kaufman
The debut novel from the screenwriter and director of ‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and more is the zippiest postmodern, self-referential doorstop you’ll ever read
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March 13, 2020Make ’em laugh: ‘Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming’
On surrendering to the altogether amusing madness of László Krasznahorkai’s prose
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February 1, 2020‘A Couple of Things Before the End’ by Sean O’Beirne
The Australian author’s debut story collection confidently converts the linguistic detritus of our era into something of lasting value
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February 22, 2019‘Stan & Ollie’: a beautiful lie
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are perfectly cast in this affectionate biopic
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March 1, 2019‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany
This new novel is most striking in how it diverges from its predecessors
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December 1, 2018Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug
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November 2, 2018‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney
This Booker Prize–longlisted examination of human nature is simply moving
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April 1, 2018Ceridwen Dovey’s ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’
Reality flexes at the edges of Dovey’s second novel