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20 Worst Shark Tank Deals Ever
Shark Tank, the hit TV show where hopeful entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of savvy investors, has seen its fair share of both triumphs and flops. While...
Paul Schrader’s Favorite Works of Fiction
Paul Schrader, whose latest film, “Oh, Canada,” is based on Russell Banks’s semi-autobiographical novel “Foregone,” is no stranger to literary adaptations. In 1985, he co-wrote and directed “Mishima: A...
Nikki Giovanni’s Legacy of Black Love
Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto the scene in the nineteen-sixties already fully...
Remembering Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean Heyday (and Forgetting His Recent Lear)
So—a few weeks ago, I saw Kenneth Branagh in “King Lear” at the Shed. Maybe you did, too? It’s been a while, but I’ve been hesitating to write: I’m...
Kid Allowance Chart by Age
Understanding how to manage an allowance is essential for kids as they grow. It not only teaches them about money but also helps build important life skills such as...
The Best TV Shows of 2024
For the past two decades or so, cinema’s loss has been television’s gain. As the mid-budget movie, once the natural home of grown-up fare, collapsed, prestige programming ballooned on...
The Hollow Allure of Spotify Wrapped
I joined Spotify, the Swedish streaming service, toward the end of 2020, spending the better part of a Sunday transferring my Apple Music library and local files onto the...
Kendrick Lamar’s Year on Top
The film “Paid in Full,” from 2002, is a fictionalized retelling of the brief but titanic reign of three real-life New York drug kingpins during the crack era of...
Who Owns Ferrari?
There are many fancy car brands out there that nearly everyone wants. Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Cadillac, Audi, Volvo, Lamborghini, and many more. But perhaps one car that gets lots of...
Paul Valéry Would Prefer Not To
One way of being a modernist writer is to pay attention to the most saliently modern objects and experiences. So it is that Proust recounts the arresting novelty of...
