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Charlie Brown, Frosty and other ‘anti-heroes’ of TV specials: How holiday soundtracks inspire hope for a little more love

At the beginning of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the 1965 Peanuts Christmas movie, the story’s anti-hero, Charlie Brown, expresses sentiments with which many of us can identify at this time of year: “Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel … I…

The Conversation

"Trump derangement": It's real, sort of

In an epic case of projection, followers of an infamous deranged criminal accuse their foes of a mental disorder

Salon

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize

The Guardian writer’s book explores the traumatic legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through those that experienced it

The Guardian - UK

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The Real Work by Adam Gopnik review – the art of expertise

The New Yorker writer explores what it takes to get good at something, from baking and boxing to mastering his own mind

The Guardian - UK

Classic Blanchett

Tár is set in the contemporary world of Western classical music and centres on Lydia Tár, one of the world's most prolific composer-conductors and first ever female music director of a major German orchestra. While the film has the look and feel of a biopic, Lydia Tár is a fictional…

Bangkok Post

Maus Now: Selected Writing, edited by Hillary Chute review – the Maus that made history

While Philip Pullman and Adam Gopnik illuminate Art Spiegelman’s towering graphic novel, few others in this collection succeed in capturing its spark and sophistication

The Guardian - UK

Tár is a wilfully enigmatic psychodrama starring Cate Blanchett as a celebrity conductor accused of sexual abuse

This psychodrama about a brilliant conductor facing #MeToo allegations and her own mental unravelling is willfully enigmatic — but also funnier than you might think.

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Movie review: Cate Blanchett's blistering performance drives powerful 'Tár'

If you drew the story arc of "Tár," it would be a long horizontal line that ends with an angled, nearly vertical one. In other words, nothing happens for quite a while and then a whole lot happens at once.

Tribune News Service

‘TÁR’: Cate Blanchett fascinates as a brilliant but toxic conductor

Star seems to be an Oscar front-runner for her performance as a genius who makes beautiful music but leads an ugly life.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Cate Blanchett is at the peak of her powers in 'Tár,' a magnificent cinematic symphony

It's not until an hour into "Tár" that we see the title character — a classical conductor known the world over as Lydia Tár and played by an unimprovable Cate Blanchett — do what she was born to do. It's an astonishing performance nestled inside another: In one shot, Lydia…

Los Angeles Times

Cate Blanchett delivers a Telluride 'Tar' de force, but Olivia Colman can't save 'Empire of Light'

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When Cate Blanchett took the stage Saturday evening for her Telluride Film Festival tribute, right after a screening of her astonishing new movie, "Tar," the audience must have enjoyed a bit of a chuckle. Most audiences that get a post-screening Q&A with Blanchett — and there will…

Los Angeles Times

Donald Trump played song from Cats to calm himself down in White House, his staff claim

Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker wrote that Donald Trump’s need to be comforted by Broadway music "degrades both the office of the Presidency and a great American institution"

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