Critic Chris Klimek offers a remembrance of the late illusionist, author and actor Ricky Jay, for whom he worked as a personal assistant over a decade ago.

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“If you aren’t someone the church would’ve killed 400 years ago, are you even living?”

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The debt John McPhail’s tuneful horror comedy owes to Shaun of the Dead proves too deep to clamber out of, but the songs are fun and Ella Hunt’s feisty lead performance is charming.

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Liana Finck illustrates her biweekly advice-column comic “Dear Pepper,” with suggestions for a struggling writer and for someone who is concerned about low-flying zippers.

Jetti Allen humorously illustrates one person’s journey to make it through a FilmStruck watchlist before it’s too late.

When Jonathan Santlofer’s wife died five years ago, he was thrown into a “fugue state” of grief. Sketching her portrait from old photographs has helped him stay close to her.

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Helen Schulman splices together an old-school family drama with high-tech fantasy in her new novel, a rich, closely observed story about regrets and risk-taking in the Internet age.

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They’re smol, affordable, and will make them say, “THIS IS WHAT MY FACE AND BODY NEEDED.”

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