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Short reviews of recent releases.

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The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a "Guys and Dolls" song break.

Plants used as a medieval floor covering: six letters.

Tech-entrepreneur bio-pics used to give us flawed men who built great products. But the latest wave of movies, from "The Social Reckoning" to "Artificial," recast Silicon Valley titans as unambiguous villains, and suggest that the products themselves ...

Comfortable patterns.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms.

In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client. Now that some sleuths have zeroed in on the location, the city is marking it with a plaque.

In rural Argentina, isolated residents exchange messages over AM radio.