Culture and politics

Books 2025

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Books of the Year: Reading at the End of the World 2025 was a strong year for books, particularly for writers circling the same big questions from different angles: reality and unreality, social collapse, the exhaustion of modern life, and the return of authoritarian politics in new guises. What follows isn’t a neat or balanced … Read more

Movies | 2025

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2025: The Year the Movies Got Interesting Again 2025 was a very good year for cinema — partly because of what didn’t happen. There was an almost complete absence of traditional mega-blockbusters. The biggest film of the year was, improbably, The Minecraft Movie. With the usual franchise machinery stalled, space opened up for smaller, stranger, … Read more