Not everything works with Netflix’s offbeat comedy-drama weaving the story of a mad scientist with the dreams of two of his subjects. But lead Emma Stone and director Cary Fukunaga are in top form.
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Not everything works with Netflix’s offbeat comedy-drama weaving the story of a mad scientist with the dreams of two of his subjects. But lead Emma Stone and director Cary Fukunaga are in top form.
(Image credit: Michele K. Short/Netflix)
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After 20 years, Murphy Brown returns to the host chair. In the revival, Candice Bergen’s acerbic, pioneering news anchor goes up against her son, who works for a conservative cable news channel.
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BUFFALO, NY—Watching his team fail miserably while attempting to convert yet another third down and long, Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott wondered Sunday if he still needed to act angry even though everyone already knew the Bills were going to lose. “I mean, everybody saw this coming, should I even bother…


The young protagonist of Kate Atkinson’s latest historical novel finds herself working for British intelligence during the war — and suddenly confronting that experience years later.
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Jessica Hopper’s memoir oscillates between charting a story of gentrification, a young woman’s love affair with Chicago, and the types of friendships that represent the texture of a city.
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Jen Doll’s new novel follows a group of misfit kids working at Alabama’s legendary Unclaimed Baggage store, a place where all kinds of lost things (and people, and one purple leopard suitcase) end up.
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