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Author: Abigail Nussbaum

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The Plot Against America

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On April 22, 2020
HBO's six-part adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America concluded its run earlier this week. I haven't read the original novel, for various reasons but mainly because its premise—an alternate history in which Nazi-sympathizer Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940, keeps the US...
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Best Books of the Decade

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On January 3, 2020
Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore in Chongqing City. Image by X+living The second decade of the twenty-first century is now concluded. Time marches ever forward, carrying us inexorably towards death. On the other hand: listsicles! I started keeping logs of my reading in 2003, so the teens...
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[This is a reprint from my blog.] One interesting aspect of our current era of cinematic universes and mega-franchises is that the stories behind the scenes often feel more interesting, and more dramatic, than the ones on screen. I like most MCU movies, but I'd...
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