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The musician’s posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, is as rich and ambiguous as his declaration that “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”

Hirikazu Kore-eda’s I Wish, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope, Shirley Clarke’s The Connection, Mia Hansen Love’s Goodbye First Love, Jennifer Baichwal’s Payback

Already facing crippling debt and a rocky job market, students in default can't even get access to the grades they've already earned.

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith.

These ten leaders are using their wealth of knowledge to attack a root cause of social dysfunction.
 

Jem Cohen’s Newsreel No. 1, Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, Andrew Niccol’s In Time

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How Alan Lomax became the most significant Baedeker of America’s folkways.

Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.

No matter who is declared the winner, the country's March 20 elections represent a defeat for Haitian democracy.