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Author: Abigail Nussbaum

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Chernobyl

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On June 7, 2019
Writing in the New Yorker, Masha Gessen takes HBO's recently-concluded, and for the most part universally-lauded, miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster to task for failing to grasp Soviet power structures. Herein lies one of the series’ biggest flaws: its failure to accurately portray Soviet relationships...

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On June 5, 2019

Some recent (and not-so recent) writing by me that LGM-ers might find of interest. Hey, remember Avengers: Endgame? It was the biggest movie of the decade, and then we stopped.

Brett Easton Ellis, as you may recall, wrote a book about how everyone is too sensitive these days and Moonlight shouldn't have won the Oscar. I quoted heavily from Andrea Long Chu's magnificently nasty review, which pointedly skewered not only Ellis's arguments, such as they...
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Links R’ Us

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On March 31, 2019
It's been a week since Us, Jordan Peele's brilliant, messy follow-up to Get Out, opened in theaters, and I think it's time for the LGM commentariat to get their thinking caps on about it. Us is the sort of film that is almost as much...
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