The documentary often gets a bad rap. Maybe you watched a few boring (or prescriptive) ones in school, in which talking heads drone on about what you ought to...
To Understand the Present, Read These 10 Political Novels from the Past
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Fiction has a way of probing the reality of a particular moment in history that you can’t always get from pure fact. Whether it’s a tale of historical fiction...
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Jonathan Pryce on the set of Brazil, written and directed by Terry Gilliam. Embassy International Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) In February 1985, when Terry Gilliam’s Brazil first hit...
