Three mystery authors discuss crime television, the banality of murder, and the surprising niceness of crime writers.
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The sibling filmmakers on letting a story grow organically, the challenges of representing depression on screen, and finding variances in a repetitive structure.
How the dominance of English affects the ways other cultures see each other.
In Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, everything happens so much. What about those books where nothing happens, and it's fine?
The desire to refresh, recharge, and reinvent ourselves is natural, even healthy—but resolutions tied to objects and tools tend to disappoint us.
In an increasingly fragmented world, the debate around "Je Suis Charlie" reminds us there are reasons to avoid collectivity.
How do you argue with someone who won't stop reminding you that they're going to die?
The acclaimed (and playfully salty) filmmaker on the evolution of style, shooting in digital, and the limits and joys of making period pieces.
The choice he had: between a life of boredom in a displaced persons camp or joining the armed struggle. A dispatch from among the Kachin Independence Army of northern Burma.
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