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Bloomswary

REVIEW: ‘The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom’

REVIEW: ‘Disclosure Day’

It’s Spielberg’s first movie-of-the-week in a half century!

No Bridge Was Too Far for Sonny Rollins

REVIEW: ‘Tuner’

The best movie of the year so far

Less Choice, More Happiness

REVIEW: 'Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better' by David Epstein

REVIEW: ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’

For the sequel to a beloved working-girl comedy, everybody forgot to find a plot

Hardcore Country Hero

REVIEW: ‘Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky Tonks’ by Jimmy McDonough

Into the Woods

REVIEW: ‘How to Survive in the Woods: A Novel’ by Kat Rosenfield

Tyranny Through Technology

REVIEW: ‘The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control’ by Jacob Siegel

This Emperor Had Clothes

REVIEW: ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian