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A free Saturday afternoon and a quiet corner can get you through an entire novel, as long as you pick the right one. Plenty of the books we call classics are shorter than people assume. The twelve below are all compact. Page counts shift with the edition, so treat the numbers as rough guides, but […]

Television has always been quick to cancel. A show can disappear after a few weeks because of a bad time slot, a slow start or an executive’s hunch. Some of those shows didn’t stay gone, though. Reruns, home video, streaming and word of mouth gave them second lives, often years after the final episode aired. […]

Most bookshelves hold at least one thick classic with a bookmark stuck somewhere near page 100. It usually sits there for years, neither returned nor completed. Length is only part of the reason, because plenty of readers happily finish long modern novels. What these books share is a mix of demanding structure, unfamiliar context, and […]

Some film music works so well that you can name the movie before a single image appears. A few notes drift out of a speaker, and you’re already in a theater seat from decades ago. That kind of instant recognition is rarer than you’d think. The eleven themes below all earned it in different ways. […]

Ten films won Best Picture at the ceremonies held between 1990 and 1999. They include a road trip drama, a Western, a serial killer thriller, a Holocaust epic, and the biggest box office hit of its era. Few decades of Oscar winners cover that much ground. Ranking them means comparing very different kinds of movies, […]