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Taking a Week Off to Cool Off
When I can’t review a TV show without antisemitic voices invading my brain it’s time for me to take a breather
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Lessons of the Pit Bull: “Breed” as Other
This morning I had a nightmare in the back-to-sleep hour between 4:30 and 5:30 when I force myself to get more time in, and when, apparently, my…
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Remembering How Close Trump Came to Losing the 2016 Election
Some context for the “Access Hollywood” Tapes and their relation to the current charges against Trump. From my book on the 2016 election.
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A Tom Ripley For Our Times
Nearly seven decades later, we’ve got the first version that’s faithful, in spirit and plot, to Patricia Highsmith’s first Ripley novel—and we’re in a…
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The Rhetorical Escalator
How it came to be ok to compare Israelis to Nazis
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My Sister as Songwriter
Reinvention can also be a ripening. A conversation with my sister Binnie Klein about her new album “The Quiver.” Includes music videos!
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Weekend Nostalgia: “Mad Men” Deconstructs 50’s Fantasies
The genius of Matthew Weiner took on the sexism of the suburbs, the corporate workplace, advertising, and the male psyche.
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I’m Just Susan, and These are My Picks and Predictions
Best Picture and more, including a rarely mentioned fact about “Poor Things”
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Perspectives on “Oppenheimer”: A Collaborative Work By Susan Bordo and Stephen Faulk
It’s winning all the awards. But perhaps not all the hearts and minds.
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Stephen Faulk
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Opening the Hatch: On the Finale of "Night Country"
You can’t just throw the stuffed toy out the window and think you’ve banished grief. As a story about the weight of loss, the relief of letting go, and…
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All of Us Are Real: An Adoption Memoir
My daughter Cassie will be 25 this Monday. I wrote this when she was 10.
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Ghosts
“Night Country” and “Feud: Capote V. The Swans”
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“Barbie” and the Oscars: Let’s Get More Precise About the “Snub”
The sexism that cut Greta Gerwig out of a “Best Directer” nomination is many-layered.
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How Trump Became a God for Evangelicals
It wasn’t abortion. It was a bunch of indictments. And maybe the power of myth.
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