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The publication Tuesday of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, has reopened the wounds of last year’s presidential election. As Michiko Kakutani writes in The New York Times, the book blames Hillary Clinton and her campaign for Donald Trump’s victory: “It’s the story of a wildly dysfunctional and ‘spirit-crushing’ campaign that embraced a flawed strategy (based on flawed data) and that failed, repeatedly, to correct course.”

Picture our world seen from the air. A condo tower appears as a dollhouse, each window offering a glimpse into an individual life. The street below is a flat plane, occupied by toy cars. Or a single stand of evergreens points toward the sky in the midst of a barren, snow-covered landscape no vehicle has crossed.

“Being a Jewish bladesmith—that’s what really defines me. I’m going to crush the competition with my Hebrew hammer.” So says Adlai, a 50-year-old lawyer, who has quit his job to forge swords full time. Adlai is a contestant on the History Channel’s show Forged in Fire, in which bladesmiths compete under pressure to create ferociously edged weapons. Metal pounds metal and flames billow around the in-studio forge. Everything seems to glow red and radiate violence and masculinity. Adlai almost passes... Читать дальше...

Some believe the summer movie season began with last week’s The Fate of the Furious, but it is not summer yet (after all, there might be snow in upstate New York this weekend). Still, we’re close. An argument could be made that, as blockbuster season expands into every month of the calendar, it’s always summer in Hollywood. But with the impending release of Marvel’s highly anticipated sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, it’s really almost here now. And one hallmark of the summer movie season endures... Читать дальше...