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Author: Abigail Nussbaum

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Whither Satire

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On December 26, 2021
I've been thinking lately about satire, and particularly political satire of our present moment, which often seems to have come pre-satirized, no joke or jibe having more of a bite than actual reality. Mocking the mock-worthy can sometimes be galvanizing to those of us who...

Dune

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On October 29, 2021

[This review appeared on my blog earlier this week.] For as long as we've been waiting for Denis Villeneuve's Dune, a period made even longer by the vicissitudes of the pandemic,.

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The Many Saints of Newark

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On October 3, 2021
In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably say that I was skeptical about the idea of a Sopranos prequel movie—and especially one focused on Tony Soprano’s teenage years—from the moment it was first floated. The essence of The Sopranos was fruitless regret and...
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Y’all got played

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On September 4, 2021
There were two unread posts on LGM when I woke up this morning. The first was about how the supreme court was able to gut a half-century-old precedent establishing constitutional protections for abortion with an unsigned, poorly-argued paragraph because there is, in a large chunk...
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Some Weekend Reading

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On July 30, 2021
LGM, I am traveling. I got on a plane. I checked into a hotel. I went to restaurants and museums and the theater. I've spent the last week at a vacation house with a bunch of friends (who are all vaccinated and took PCR or...
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