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Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time.

Meanwhile, we have endless debates about whether needs — access to medical care, food, affordable housing — should be rights, or should be left to the exigencies of good luck and near-perfect health.

"I think that the time horizon associated with those big pieces of legislation was way out of sync with the exigencies of the presidential election," he said.

Economic exigencies are often more urgent than a deference to the past, but Little Tokyo is trying to have it both ways.

“We discussed whether we had exigency” to enter the apartment forcibly.