Year in review: Movies, television, music and the arts
The Times’ critics separate the wheat from the chaff and reflect on the direction of our dizzying culture.
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“Let’s have a toast,” sang Kanye West in September of this sometimes seemingly endless year, debuting a new song, “Runaway,” on the MTV Video Music Awards.
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With John Cage’s “4’33” “ gaining popularity, it could be a tacit hit, at least in Britain.
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FAVORITE BOOKS Here, in alphabetical order by title, are the 10 books that, over the last 12 months, most moved, inspired or beguiled me: my favorite books of 2010.
