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Alleged Plot to Kill Sikh Separatist Highlights Thorn in India’s Side
The charges are rooted in a decades-old dispute over the demand by some Sikhs for a sovereign state known as Khalistan carved out of northern India.
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Israel’s Next Aim Is Southern Gaza. U.S. Urges Restraint.
American officials are making clear to Israel that it cannot pursue a campaign in the south that would have the same devastating consequences as in the north.
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‘Southern/Modern’: Radical Art Below the Mason-Dixon Line
In the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious artists in the South were great innovators, reflecting on race, progress and the disappearing plantocracy.
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Grace Wales Bonner Summons the Spirit Movers in Her MoMA Show
The London-based designer’s Artist’s Choice exhibition evokes the styles, forms and sounds of the African diaspora.
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Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, his parent company Toho Studios waited until the end of this year to release the most conventional Godzilla movie in recent memory. “Godzilla Minus One” may also be the most sobering and least flamboyant Japanese-produced Godzilla movie since the original 1954 nuclear lizard disaster pic (though “Godzilla…
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Raging Grace
Joy (Max Eigenmann) is one of millions of domestic workers in the world. She’s overlooked by some employers, while others intensely scrutinize her every move. Joy is trying to survive another day, and out of sight of her employers, she’s saving up for bigger dreams they can’t imagine for her: stability, safety, a neglected career…
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The Tenth Anniversary of The Unloved
Scout Tafoya’s ‘The Unloved’ is a heartfelt salvage operation into cinema’s outcasts — the forgotten glitter in neglected celluloid. A must. – Patton Oswalt Who is this sensitive soul who looked around and thought, “the world needs more love,” and then contributed that love through his art? Scout Tafoya – Critic, Director, Author, Actor, Editor…
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The Unloved, Part 120: The Claim
When I got to Boston in the winter of 2008 for schooling, I knew almost no one. I had family that I roomed with for a semester and took it as my burden that by living an hour’s train ride away, it wouldn’t be feasible or realistic to try and do much in the city, and…
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Eileen
Everything is ugly in Eileen’s life. Her small Massachusetts town is rickety and dingy. The house where she lives with her end-stages alcoholic father is the neighborhood eyesore. The “youth center for boys”, i.e., prison for kids, where she works, is aggressively ugly. The ugliness is so total Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) doesn’t appear to notice…
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Carolyn Hax chat: I feel content with my life. Why do I still feel envy?
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.