Books
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Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.
This is not an article. It’s a fish in the shape of a piano, floating in a clear blue sky,…
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The Pianist Amaro Freitas Takes His Jazz Somewhere New: The Amazon
For his latest album, “Y’Y,” the Brazilian composer looked to inspirations in nature and experiments with prepared pianos.
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In ‘Elsbeth,’ a Quirky Side Character Becomes a Quirky Lead
This CBS procedural is new, but its star, Carrie Preston, has been playing the central character for almost 14 years.
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Faye Webster Hates Attention. But Her Songs Keep Getting Bigger.
Music that walks the line between indie-rock and country — and her easy access to her emotions — has brought…
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Review: ‘Oh, Mary!’ Turns an Unhinged Bit Into Real Theater
Cole Escola’s play, which imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated cabaret singer, surprisingly pulls off stretching a stupid joke…
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Review: A Soprano Cements Her Stardom in the Met’s New ‘Forza’
Lise Davidsen, entering the Italian repertoire at the company, was part of a superb cast as Verdi’s opera returned for…
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Jeffrey Gibson Will Bring Sculptures of Ancestral Spirits to Met Facade
The Met named its 2025 art commissions, which include Gibson’s facade sculptures and a roof garden installation by the soundsmith…
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High-Stakes Capers Starring Low-Wage Workers
HELP WANTED, by Adelle Waldman GREEN DOT, by Madeleine Gray The modern workplace contains and fuels so much of our…
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He Rescued 1.5 Million Yiddish Books. Now He Will Have Time to Read Some.
Aaron Lansky was a young graduate student in Montreal in the late 1970s when he had an epiphany that changed…
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Some of the Best Bards Were Women
In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters.