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Honoré Daumier, Advice to Subscribers, 1840.

Michel Houellebecq defends his controversial new novel, Soumission.

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How did the future look from the past? Jason Z. Resnikoff sees the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien.

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In the early nineties, Paul Thomas Anderson found an inspirational teacherDavid Foster Wallace.

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Dan Piepenbring on the demise of R&B groups and the promise of D’Angelo’s new album, Black Messiah.

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“Being interesting, at a very basic level, is sort of the point of telling a story in the first place.” Thomas Pierce talks to James Yeh.

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Michael Thomson on The Evil Within, a horror video game that breaks all the rules.

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Five new paintings by Mamma Andersson.

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Ben Mauk visits Berlin‘s art book fair.

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Plus, Sadie Stein on the history of okay; and a poem by the late Stanislaw Baranczak.