Kurt finds out about a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that gets rid of the “n-word” once and for all. The actor Matt Damon and the director Sofia Coppola share their takes on Hollywood stardom. And Detroit’s decaying buildings have turned it into the capital of a new photographic genre called “ruin porn.”
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