I’m a lover of dystopias, but I’ve always found Brave New World irksome. Since its 1932 publication, Aldous Huxley’s titanic philosophical novel has been part of the fallen-world canon, inspiring countless English-class essays from adolescents and hair-pulling jeremiads from social commentators. It envisions a world where science and society have
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Bookseller One Grand Books has asked literary celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is The Good Fight and Claws star Carrie Preston’s list. Preston will be joining Dianne Wiest and John Cameron Mitchell to read from her favorite books at NeueHouse in
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In 1982, when the United Kingdom was being strangled by the culturally conservative neck brace of Thatcherism, a jolt of comedic mayhem began broadcasting on BBC2, much to the delight of viewers desperate for entertainment defined by bawdiness and bad manners.The Young Ones, which aired 12 episodes over a two-year
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Nearly three years after it first premiered, Making a Murderer returns to Netflix as filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos track Steven Avery and his new lawyer’s attempts to overturn his conviction. In a meta moment, the stakes are all the higher given the success of the show’s first season,
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After Taylor Swift posted a rare politically charged Instagram post on Sunday, in which she urged her fans to vote in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, Vote.org has reportedly seen an unprecedented spike in new voter registrations.“We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s
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On a July afternoon last year, non-timey-wimey clocks across the universe stood still for a moment, upon the news that a 30-something lass from West Yorkshire would replace a sexagenarian Scottish chap in the long running British sci-fi series Doctor Who. The actress, of course, is Jodie Whittaker, whose prominence
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You thought her husband had enemies? House of Cards’ sixth season wastes no time in establishing that just about everyone in Claire Underwood’s orbit (Robin Wright) is planning on doing whatever they can to kick her out of power, much to her maniacal try me, fuckers delight. “I’m not going
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Stephen Sondheim, comparing two big hits by Rodgers and Hammerstein, memorably quipped, “Oklahoma! is about a picnic, Carousel is about life and death.” I’m not sure if the director Daniel Fish set out to prove Sondheim wrong when he took on Oklahoma!, but that, among other fascinating and frightening things,
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