Books
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A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve
For many readers, the portal into Hilary Mantel’s work was “Wolf Hall” (2009), the first volume of an astonishing trilogy…
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Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York?
Parading down the middle of West 63rd Street last Saturday afternoon, we were following a giant puppet — a whole…
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Ryan Grantham of ‘Riverdale’ Sentenced to Life for Mother’s Murder
Ryan Grantham, a young Canadian actor who appeared in the television show “Riverdale,” has been sentenced to life in prison…
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Five International Movies to Stream Now
‘A Distant Place’ Stream it on Tubi. In a remote village in South Korea, the farmhand Jin-woo (Kang Gil-woo) and…
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Birthday Messages to Celebrate Lives, Not Mourn Police Killings
If Oscar Grant III could celebrate his birthday, his mother, the Rev. Wanda Johnson, said, he’d welcome the entire neighborhood…
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.
KASSEL, Germany — It began with a calumny, it ends with a crack-up. Twice a decade, for exactly 100 days,…
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Lynn Nottage’s ‘Clyde’s’ Is the Most-Staged Play in America
Theaters around America appear to be staging fewer shows than they were before the pandemic, but a lot of the…
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The Town That Charles Built
POUNDBURY, England — On Queen Mother Square in Poundbury, a quaint town in southern England, sits a huge neo-Classical apartment…
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop
Season 1, Episode 5: ‘Partings’ This week’s “The Rings of Power” is the grandest in scale so far, with every…
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos.…