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New issues resume on December 6!
Until then, we’ve put together a list of recommended book and film reviews, specially curated for the holiday weekend.
Assistant senior editor Bolek and 4Columns mascot Sparky are here to help you navigate through all kinds of family feuding!
To help pass the long hours of this long weekend—whether you’re spending time solo or with relatives or friends—we’re sharing a roundup of books and films sure to remind you that family turmoil can be both fun and positively frightening. (And there’s plenty more family dysfunction to be found in our archives.)
We’ll be back with a new issue next week!
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Leslie Camhi on Vigdis Hjorth’s Is Mother Dead
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Sukhdev Sandhu on Noah Baumbach’s White Noise
Foreground, left to right: Greta Gerwig as Babette, Adam Driver as Jack, and Raffey Cassidy as Denise in White Noise. Courtesy Netflix.
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Sasha Frere-Jones on Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads
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Johanna Fateman on Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
Left to right: Michelle McLeod as Mejal, Sheila McCarthy as Greta, Liv McNeil as Neitje, Jessie Buckley as Mariche, Claire Foy as Salome, Kate Hallett as Autje, Rooney Mara as Ona, and Judith Ivey as Agata in Women Talking. Photo: Michael Gibson. © Orion Releasing.
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Hermione Hoby on Marie NDiaye’s Vengeance Is Mine
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Nick Pinkerton on Ari Aster’s Hereditary
Milly Shapiro, Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, and Alex Wolff in Hereditary. Photo: James Minchin. Courtesy A24.