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February 10, 2022‘Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters’ by Ben Burgis
On the question of why Christopher Hitchens still matters, Ben Burgis ultimately has little to say
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November 26, 2021End of the road: The Anthony Bourdain documentary ‘Roadrunner’
Morgan Neville’s posthumous examination of the celebrity chef hews close to the familiar narrative
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March 26, 2019The hyperbole machine
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November 14, 2018The magnificently messy ‘House of Cards’
The show that made Netflix a major player comes to a satisfying and ludicrous end
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October 25, 2018Comedy gets a reset with ‘The Good Place’
This innovative NBC/Netflix series has reversed TV’s slide into darkness
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October 4, 2018‘Dark Tourist’ fails to shed light on extreme travel’s shortcomings
David Farrier becomes the darkest ghoul on the bus in this Netflix travel series
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April 23, 2018‘The Americans’, the Russians and the perils of parallels
Why sometimes it’s better to approach art on its own terms
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March 7, 2018‘Slow Burn’: Trump, Nixon and the art of the podcast
Slate Plus’s podcast on Watergate urges patience on its audience
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December 3, 2017Anthony Bourdain, the anti-foodie foodie
The so-called bad-boy celebrity chef has always offered a smarter take – and now we’re beginning to notice
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November 7, 2017Seeing both sides in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ‘The Vietnam War’
In a new series, prolific documentarian Ken Burns finally acknowledges that American stories have an impact on the stories of others
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September 19, 2017Understanding Vivian Maier
In a world obsessed with sharing images, what should we make of a street photographer who hoarded them?
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June 29, 2017A novel idea
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In the 1960s, Sydneysider Chris Meagher was a torero known as “El Australiano”