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Cults, College Dropouts and the Art of Control in Two New Story Collections
Ohlin’s sly irony leavens the aching plights of characters for whom closure is unattainable. In “FMK,” Sonia happens upon a...
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Timothy Rub Will Step Down at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Timothy Rub, 69, the director and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on Friday announced that he...
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Chuck E. Weiss, Musician Who, in Love, Inspired a Hit Song, Dies at 76
Chuck E. Weiss, blues musician, club owner and outsize Los Angeles character immortalized in Rickie Lee Jones’s breakout hit song,...
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Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to ListenOmar El Akkad’s new novel, “What Strange Paradise,” uses some...
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From ‘Call My Agent!’ to Hollywood Career
At some point during the pandemic, perhaps between the debut of “Ted Lasso” last August and “Bridgerton” in December, you...
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New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’
BEGIN AGAIN: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Crown, 288 pp.,...
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Poetry and Politics, HIPAA and Other Letters to the Editor
In VerseTo the Editor: As a poet, a part of second-wave feminism and a former poetry reviewer, I greatly appreciate...
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New York City Awards $3 Million for Latino and Puerto Rican Theater
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs announced on Friday that the city had awarded $3 million to Pregones/Puerto...
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Repression, Obsession, Murder
True-crime podcasts are useful devices for thriller writers because they have a way of making cold cases hot again. That’s...
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The Pleasure of Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Face
Alison Barnwell is an artist and writer based in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in AGNI and The Believer.Follow...
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Overlooked No More: Janet Sobel, Whose Art Influenced Jackson Pollock
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported...
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Silk Sonic’s Retro Roller Jam, and 12 More New Songs
With a new single, “Skate,” it becomes ever clearer that Silk Sonic — the collaboration of Bruno Mars and Anderson...
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Take a Journey With Dev Patel in ‘The Green Knight’
“My name is David Lowery, and I adapted and directed The Green Knight. This is a scene in which Sir...
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Video: ‘The Green Knight’ | Anatomy of a Scene
“My name is David Lowery, and I adapted and directed The Green Knight. This is a scene in which Sir...
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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: The Return of Jamie Tartt
Season 2, Episode 2: ‘Lavender’Jamie Tartt, doo doo da doo da doo, Jamie Tartt, doo doo da doo da doo.As...
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Legends Remade: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
Marissa Levien’s THE WORLD GIVES WAY (Redhook, 402 pp., $28) is a staggering marvel, an action-packed cat-and-mouse chase on a...
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Stream These Five International Films Now
In the age of streaming, the earth is flat — screen-size, with travel to faraway destinations only a monthly subscription...
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Broadway Audiences Will Need Proof of Vaccination and Masks
Broadway’s theater owners and operators, citing the ongoing dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, said Friday that they have decided to...
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In ‘Mr. Corman,’ Joseph Gordon-Levitt Looks Inward and Asks, ‘What If?’
Acting ultimately won his heart: From 2007 to 2016, he was part of at least one favorably reviewed film every...
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Sarah Niles Needed ‘Ted Lasso,’ Too
The British actress Sarah Niles was, like many of us, a late convert to “Ted Lasso.” She missed the debut...
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Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal
Whereas in “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,” bodies themselves were plastic, shape-shifting until they lost all trace...
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She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More.
For several months in 1916, the sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger stayed together at the Villa Medici in Rome. A...
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‘The Last Mercenary’ Review: Still Kicking
At 60, Jean-Claude Van Damme has racked up roughly as many features as birthdays. Noting this prolificness, the strangely compelling...
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Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning
MAYA AND THE ROBOTBy Eve L. EwingIllustrated by Christine AlmedaDiversity (or, more accurately, the lack of it) has long been...
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An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong
BLACK BOY JOY17 Stories Celebrating Black BoyhoodEdited by Kwame MbaliaDanielle Young coined the term “Black Boy Joy” in 2016 after...
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How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?
Every Monday and Friday, Margaret offers hyper-specific viewing recommendations in our Watching newsletter. Read her latest picks below, and sign...
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Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Release
Disney, citing the ongoing coronavirus threat, ultimately decided to release several major movies simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ Premier...
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Floyd Cooper, Illustrator of Black Life for Children, Dies at 65
Floyd Cooper, a celebrated children’s book illustrator who explored the African American experience in stories rooted in history, like one...
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Former Dance Instructor Accused of Sexual Assault in Lawsuit
A pair of professional dancers filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing a former dance teacher of sexually assaulting and abusing...
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‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Review: Best Friends in Peril
Bobby and Kevin are bound and gagged in a car trunk. After Kevin is pulled out and whisked away, Bobby...
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How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back
When lockdown lifted last spring, some of our big New York City museums were able to slide major waiting-in-the-wings exhibitions...
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Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds
Mortimer generally follows the novel’s plot and incorporates a lot of its words directly into Fanny’s narration, and her “Pursuit...
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Graham Company Announces Season of In-Person Performances
The Martha Graham Dance Company will debut new works by Andrea Miller and Hofesh Shechter in New York in its...
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At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses
“Renate, both due to geography and gender, has until now remained a subterranean figure of Anger’s underground, as if her...
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‘Sabaya’ Review: Light Breaking Through Darkness
In the black of night in northeastern Syria, two men drive their rickety jeep deep into Al Hol, a refugee...
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Dev Patel, Starry Knight
“Whether you’re an Instagram model or a YouTuber, there’s this thirst to be recognized, to have your legend spoken about,...
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Prince Made ‘Welcome 2 America’ in 2010. It Speaks to 2021.
It’s almost as if Prince knew what lay ahead.In 2010, Prince recorded but then shelved a finished album, “Welcome 2...
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‘Fauna’ Review: Narcomythologies
This lean meta-drama tackles the fictions typically associated with Mexican culture with droll humor and bold conceptual play.
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week
THE VIXEN, by Francine Prose. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) In Prose’s latest novel, set in the 1950s, a young editor is hired...
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$10 million is being given to arts institutions in the U.S. to help make them more energy-efficient.
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, named for the American abstract expressionist painter, announced on Wednesday that it had committed $10 million...
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‘Tailgate’ Review: Retribution for Road Rage
If you’ve ever been the victim of another driver’s road rage, you might sympathize with the killer stalking “Tailgate,” a...
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