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“The name’s Strike. Cormoran Strike…”

May 8, 2022: …is not something that Tom Burke’s character says in any of the Strike episodes to date. Nor …

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Well, This Is Kind of Cool

March 28, 2022: So…I’ve just written my first Briefly Noted for The New Yorker; it’s in the April 4 issue, …

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I Am Not a Charlotte

January 26, 2022: Not only am I not a Charlotte, but I am also not a fan of the Sex …

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I Love Desi (Again)

January 2, 2022: I’ve already written about how wild I am about Desi Arnaz. Well, I’m even wilder about him …

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Not That You Asked Again

December 31, 2021: Last year you probably didn’t care that I listed the five best books about old Hollywood that …

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An Excuse to Run a Norma Desmond Pic

December 26, 2021: In my review of Kat Rosenfield’s “No One Will Miss Her,” which runs today in the Portland …

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Grace and Jimmy in “Rear Window”? No, Gerri and Roman in “Succession”

December 12, 2021: Aw…don’t they look like a classic-movie pair in this shot? After I finished watching season two of …

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Who’s Got the Straight Edge (Besides Ian)?

November 28, 2021: It’s me! It’s me! After several decades of being straight edge, I wrote a cheerful little screed …

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No Thanks to (Most) Rom-Coms

September 26, 2021: The problem with romantic comedies is that you already know the ending, so what’s the point? Having …

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Happy 65th Birthday to Jerry Hall, Who I Officially Love Now

July 2, 2021: You know how you were always rooting for Jerry Hall for some reason, but you didn’t know …

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Nell Beram

Nell Beram is a former Atlantic Monthly staff editor and coauthor of Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies (Abrams, 2013). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared at The Awl, Bright Lights Film Journal, The Cut, Salon, and Slate and in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, L'Officiel, The Threepenny Review, V magazine, and elsewhere.

She lives in the Boston area with her family.

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