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  • Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha.(Pine District, LLC)
    Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha.(Pine District, LLC)
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    It’s Woody Allen’s Fault

    Noah Baumbach’s new Frances Ha shows the fate of a generation enamored of the nebbishy narcissist

    byAndrew Lapin
  • (Dana O'Keefe/Hulu)
    (Dana O'Keefe/Hulu)
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    ‘Speed’ Levitch, Neo-Hasid

    Is the free-associating tour guide and hipster icon, star of a Hulu original series, the hidden saint of our times?

    byJames Winchell
  • (Victoria Roberts/The New Yorker)
    (Victoria Roberts/The New Yorker)
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    Helpless

    The nebbish is the bumbling caricature of a Jewish male, embodied by figures like Woody Allen and George Costanza. Where did he come from?

    byRachel Shukert
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