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This year's Oscar shorts, in four programsnew
There's a strong crop of Animated Short Film nominees this year, and unusually, none of the nominees are CGI. In fact, there's a welcome return of old-school animation, with hand-drawn and stop-motion animation among the candidates.
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An interview with Mary Roach.
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The worlds of the suddenly hot George Saundersnew
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Frank Deford's memoir of the sportswriting high lifenew
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