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<em>Eileen</em> Complicates the Relationship at the Heart of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Novel

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<em>Poor Things</em> is a Curious Phantasmagoria

Poor Things is a Curious Phantasmagoria

Olivia Rutigliano on Yorgos Lanthimos’s (Best) New Film

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in December

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Feminine Appetites in Todd Haynes’s <em>May December</em>

Feminine Appetites in Todd Haynes’s May December

Hannah Bonner on the Aesthetics of Tabloid Culture

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Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

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