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"Zippy has been so overanalyzed that I risk exploding my retreads with every whir of the old analytical wheel."

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‘Even at the beginning there was more than beer spray and gun smoke, metal riffs and hip-hop beats’

The Voice weighed in on the sitcom in the Eighties and Nineties, asking, Is TV an electronic dollhouse for the masses?

‘Looking back at my parents’ experience, I always wondered, “How bad did things have to get in order for you to leave everything you know and love?” ’

A Jay-Z documentary on Trayvon Martin and several memoirs look back on the origins of the new civil rights movement

Algiers rage with ‘Cleveland,’ Pussy Riot rock with France

In “Just a Shot Away,” Saul Austerlitz revisits the concert that started in hope and ended in bloodshed

A new graphic novel recounts the tragedies and triumphs of one family’s dream of building a bridge across the East River