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Anthony Lane on ?Moonrise Kingdom

ABSTRACT: THE CURRENT CINEMA review of ?Moonrise Kingdom.? The new Wes Anderson film, ?Moonrise Kingdom,? is set in 1965, off the coast of New England, on the island of New Penzance. Twelve-year-old Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) lives on a tip of the island ... [ Published 4 hours ago by New Yorker ]

Entities: Anthony Lane, Wes Anderson, Joseph Cornell, Stanley Donen, Vincente Minnelli

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Laura Miller

Laura Miller: First encounters with aliens in fiction.

Bacteria are not known for their ability to stir the imagination, but there is at least one reliable exception: bacteria from Mars. In 1996, a NASA study caused a sensation when it announced the mere possibility of fossilized bacteria in a meteorite believed ... [ Published 4 hours ago by New Yorker ]

Entities: J.-H. Rosny, Camille Flammarion, Laura Miller, Species, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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Steven Moffat

Emily Nussbaum: From ?Doctor Who? to ?Community.?

The NBC series ?Community? was created by Dan Harmon, a mad scientist of sitcoms?so divisive a figure that he was just run out of town by his own studio. (The show was re-upped for a fourth season, but Harmon was replaced with new showrunners.) Even amid ... [ Published 4 hours ago by New Yorker ]

Entities: Steven Moffat, Dan Harmon, Spacetime, Jane Smith

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 Documents

Alec Berg

The Dictator

As Admiral General Aladeen, absolute leader of the North African state of Wadiya, Sacha Baron Cohen has a crotch-forward walk, a fatuous donkey grin, and an enormous, obviously fake black beard. He speaks a highly fricative English (the consonants get ... [ Published May 27 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Dictator, Alec Berg, David Mandel

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Dan Colen

When Art and Politics Meet? and Drink Organic Vodka

Michael Genovese. Bert Rodriguez. Andrew Kuo. Click to expand. Tim Barber. Terry Richardson. Joana Avillez. Click to expand. "JFK," by Dan Colen. Joana Avillez. Click to expand. Casey Neistat. Click to expand. "Joan Didion once wrote that politics ‘seemed ... [ Published May 26 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Dan Colen, Andrew Kuo, Al Moran

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

University of Cambridge

Book News: Nabokov?s Student Poetry, Artists on Repeat

Occupy Wall Street is suing New York City for the destruction of the "People’s Library.""In the morning, out of bed I’d hop, / and to a lecture rush / with whistling cape." Nabokov’s previously unpublished poem about his time at Cambridge University.Tom ... [ Published May 25 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Tom Shippey, Philip Carter, University of Cambridge, Occupy Wall Street

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Jennifer Egan

Coming Soon: Jennifer Egan?s ?Black Box?

This evening, the New Yorker Fiction Department (@NYerFiction) will start tweeting Jennifer Egan’s new story "Black Box," which will appear in its entirety in the Science Fiction Issue, out on Monday. We asked Egan what inspired her to structure her story ... [ Published May 24 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Jennifer Egan, Black Box Corporation, Jon Scieszka, Mediterranean Sea

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Book News: Popping Minds, Titillating Typewriters

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.The reluctant dissident: Michael Scammell on Joseph Brodsky." ‘A memorable debut’: ‘This book has a lot of sex in it.’ " Interpreting book blurbese.Scientists explore Proustian "mind pops. ... [ Published May 24 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: John R. MacArthur, Michael Scammell, Joseph Brodsky

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Edith Wharton?s Houses

Edith Wharton knows houses. Her first published book was "The Decoration of Houses," written with Ogden Codman, Jr., which argued for "house-decoration as a branch of architecture," and against "the indifference of the wealthy to architectural fitness." ... [ Published May 24 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Edith Wharton, Architecture, Marble, Lenox (Massachusetts, United States), Semi-Circular

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Book News: Revisiting Vonnegut, Grading Congress

The British cell-phone company Orange withdraws its sponsorship of its famous namesake literary prize."He became, in other words, exactly what he had always warned against, a prophet of gimcrack religions." William Deresiewicz on the aging of Kurt Vo ... [ Published May 23 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Kurt Vonnegut, George Herriman, William Deresiewicz, Zelda Fitzgerald, Charles Bukowski

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Susan Sontag on Movies: For Interpretation

1.When I read the recently published second volume of Susan Sontag’s diaries, which are filled with references to movies, I was reminded of an old (albeit virtual) quarrel I had with her.Coming up in the seventies as a movie-lover through Jean-Luc Godard’s ... [ Published May 23 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Susan Sontag, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Hollywood

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Books Pick: Halftime Entertainment

Ben Fountain’s excellent first novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving. Having recently survived a shootout in Iraq, they are on the last day of a government-funded media tour and ... [ Published May 23 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Billy Lynn, Ben Fountain, Carnivore, Thanksgiving

Quotes

"I work in politics, but my friends don’t, and they’re constantly asking me, ‘Like, what is it that you really do?’ " Gelman told me recently, noting that her job is "totally separate" from her work for D4D, which she calls "just like a labor of love, on the weekend...

When Art and Politics Meet? and Drink Organic Vodka [New Yorker - May 26 2012]

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