Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!

Lena Dunham’s funny self-help manual just sold last week to Random House and probably won’t hit stores for at least a year—but it’s already all over the Curve.

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The Approval Matrix: Week of October 15, 2012

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

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Recommend-O-Matic: Which Event Novel Should You Read This Fall?

Including Building Stories, The Casual Vacancy, and more.

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Recommend-O-Matic: Which New Show Should You Watch This Fall?

Including The Mindy Project, Nashville, and more.

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Recommend-O-Matic: Which Movie Star Should You See on Broadway This Fall?

Including Paul Rudd, Al Pacino, and more.

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In Conversation: Martin Amis

From his new home base in Brooklyn, the British novelist and firebrand talks to David Wallace-Wells about sex, porn, rioting, the difference between London and New York, and the dwindling fortunes of postmodernist literature and American empire.

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