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Nathan Fielder is a bard of discomfort. In his absurdist Comedy Central docuseries Nathan For You, the Canadian comedian offered his services as a...
Few American cartoonists are as adored as Bill Watterson, or as reluctant to embrace that adoration. In 1985, Watterson began publishing Calvin and...
Being Werner Herzog, or just working with him, may be an occupational hazard. In his baroquely titled new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God...
A nostalgic, or elegiac, sense that the most exciting and glamorous days of journalism and intellectual life are gone is no doubt part of what has...
Pablo Larrain is difficult to classify. The Chilean filmmaker is not a horror director, nor especially brooding or joyless, but themes and tones of...
White Teeth, Zadie Smith’s 2000 debut, established her as a writer of lively, zeitgeist-observing comic novels. With The Fraud, her sixth novel and...
HBO’s new docuseries Telemarketers is a riveting, charmingly gonzo investigation of the industry by former telemarketers who first began documenting...