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Brady Corbet's staggering 215-minute epic follows a Hungarian-Jewish architect who emigrates to America after World War II, only to find that the promise of reinvention comes at a devastating cost.
Sally Rooney's fourth novel follows two grieving brothers whose romantic entanglements force them to confront what they owe each other and what it means to be truly known by another person.
FX's lavish adaptation of James Clavell's novel is a masterpiece of historical drama, following an English navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan as warring lords plot to seize supreme power.
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This is a once-in-a-decade filmmaking achievement that announces Brady Corbet as one of the most ambitious directors working today. If you care about cinema as an art form capable of grappling with history, identity, and the human cost of the American experiment, The Brutalist is essential viewing.
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Brady Corbet's staggering 215-minute epic follows a Hungarian-Jewish architect who emigrates to America after World War II, only to find that the promise of reinvention comes at a devastating cost.
FX's lavish adaptation of James Clavell's novel is a masterpiece of historical drama, following an English navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan as warring lords plot to seize supreme power.
Celine Song's luminous debut follows two childhood friends from Seoul who reconnect in New York decades later, exploring the space between the lives we live and the lives we might have lived.
Critics' Choice
“Rooney haters and Rooney devotees alike should read this one. It is a genuine leap forward for one of the most discussed novelists of her generation, a book about grief and brotherhood that will catch you off guard with how deeply it cuts. This is literary fiction operating at the highest level.”Intermezzo
Literature
Sally Rooney's fourth novel follows two grieving brothers whose romantic entanglements force them to confront what they owe each other and what it means to be truly known by another person.
Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel tracks six astronauts aboard the International Space Station over a single day, turning 16 orbits of Earth into a meditation on beauty, fragility, and what it means to see our world from above.
Percival Everett reimagines Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man whose intelligence, dignity, and interiority the original novel could never fully see.
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