Books
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
This month’s selections include Jean-Luc Godard’s look at the Rolling Stones, an interview with a Holocaust survivor and a behind-the-scenes…
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Paula Abdul Accuses Nigel Lythgoe of Sexual Assault During ‘American Idol’
Ms. Abdul filed a lawsuit against Mr. Lythgoe, a producer of the reality show, that accuses him of assaulting her…
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A ‘Holopoem’ for the Cosmos
The artist Eduardo Kac was at his New York gallery the other day to show a reporter his work: a…
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Using the Wyeth Art She Reveres to Rebuild a Lost Maine Waterfront
An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth part of her…
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Murder Most Unromantic in a New ‘Carmen’ at the Metropolitan Opera
A close observer might have noticed the flicker of menace that passed between the man and the woman: how his…
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The Saucy Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London
PURE WIT: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish, by Francesca Peacock Margaret Cavendish was an intrepid and prolific writer of…
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A Hopeful Reminder: You’re Going to Die
Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on…
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Mightier — and Meaner — Than the Sword
Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.
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A Body, a Family and the Woman Who Changed Everything
In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.
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18 New Books Coming in January
Mercury, by Amy Jo Burns Burns’s second novel introduces the Josephs, a roofing family in Mercury, Pa., who — along…