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Saturday, December 6, 2025
‘Hamnet,’ With Paul Mescal as a Shakespeare Mad With Grief, Could Be the Year’s Best Movie
A silver screen adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is a bruising backstory of the Bard’s towering tragedy.
By A.R. HOFFMAN |
Underappreciated Japanese Filmmaker Gets His Due in Lincoln Center Retrospective
Over 60 years after its initial release, a work by Kōzaburō Yoshimura ‘still rattles in its candid depiction of sexual desire, psychological frustration and the limits of manhood.’
By MARIO NAVES |
Dismore Bio Takes Readers Through Exotic Lands With Iconoclastic Woman Adventurer
Lady Dorothy Mills, the first Englishwoman to visit Timbuktu, preferred to travel alone on her journeys to the remote reaches of four continents.
By CARL ROLLYSON |
‘Fackham Hall’ Seeks Laughs With Gags, Puns, and a Parody of ‘Downton Abbey’
By MARIO NAVES |
Scouts Get Their Literary ‘Harry Potter’ Moment With a Nod to Steven Spielberg and a TED Talk
By TOM TEODORCZUK |
Far From ‘Plenty of Nothing,’ Met’s New Production of ‘Porgy and Bess’ Is the Operatic Production of Our Dreams
By WILL FRIEDWALD |
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‘Hamnet,’ With Paul Mescal as a Shakespeare Mad With Grief, Could Be the Year’s Best Movie
Underappreciated Japanese Filmmaker Gets His Due in Lincoln Center Retrospective
Dismore Bio Takes Readers Through Exotic Lands With Iconoclastic Woman Adventurer
The Cast’s Impeccable Comic Timing Is Among Many Qualities That Make ‘D(e)ad’ a Winner
In New York Concert, as on New Album, Paul Winter Consort Keeps Breaking Down Barriers
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