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Keith’s unembarrassed patriotism made him a provocative throwback. Credit: Getty Images/ Credit: Rick Diamond Country music lost an icon this week. Toby Keith passed away Monday after a battle with stomach cancer. He was 62.  The Oklahoma native was a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The epistolary novel, a literary genre that has included, among its entries, works like Samuel Richardson’s “Pamela” and Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” has recently welcomed a new classic to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fantasy comes in many forms, and one of them arises when a work of scrupulous realism strains plausibility to the point that it plays like mere wish fulfillment. The German director…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the opening minutes of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s minor-key remix of the 2005 film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married, duelling assassins—the series symbolically…

State of the Union: The West could have courted sympathetic and apolitical Russians; instead we demonize them for their ethnicity. Credit: WikiCommons It took less than three weeks for Serbian actor Milos Bikovic to lose his job on the HBO…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in 1925, Harold Ross set out to revolutionize “the humorous magazines of the country,” which, in his mind, “weren’t very funny, or meritorious in any way.” Ross and his wife,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Life was different for Lily Gladstone in the summer of 2020. She had built up a small but impressive résumé in independent films, including two by Kelly Reichardt, “Certain Women” and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. I think of myself as a morning person,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s around one in the afternoon, and Joseph Grigely is bashing his head against the wall. The wall is a white expanse of Sheetrock in a vast, high-ceilinged room on the…

Jon Stewart resumes The Daily Show to send dispatches from a past America. To the delight of dozens, Jon Stewart is returning to late-night TV. On January 24, the news broke that the liberal television icon would be coming home…